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dm thin: relax hard limit on the maximum size of a metadata device

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The thin metadata format can only make use of a device that is <=
THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS (currently 15.9375 GB).  Therefore, there is no
practical benefit to using a larger device.

However, it may be that other factors impose a certain granularity for
the space that is allocated to a device (E.g. lvm2 can impose a coarse
granularity through the use of large, >= 1 GB, physical extents).

Rather than reject a larger metadata device, during thin-pool device
construction, switch to allowing it but issue a warning if a device
larger than THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS_WARNING (16 GB) is
provided.  Any space over 15.9375 GB will not be used.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Mike Snitzer 2012-03-28 18:41:28 +01:00 • committed by Alasdair G Kergon
commit c4a69ecdb4
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drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
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@ -713,6 +713,9 @@ struct dm_pool_metadata *dm_pool_metadata_open(struct block_device *bdev,
if (r)
goto bad;
if (bdev_size > THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS)
bdev_size = THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS;
disk_super = dm_block_data(sblock);
disk_super->magic = cpu_to_le64(THIN_SUPERBLOCK_MAGIC);
disk_super->version = cpu_to_le32(THIN_VERSION);