Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: Saner printing of large file sizes

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 30.03.2019 um 16:07 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> Disk sizes close to INT64_MAX cause overflow, for some pretty
> ridiculous output:
> 
>   $ ./nbdkit -U - memory size=$((2**63 - 512)) --run 'qemu-img info $nbd'
>   image: nbd+unix://?socket=/tmp/nbdkitHSAzNz/socket
>   file format: raw
>   virtual size: -8388607T (9223372036854775296 bytes)
>   disk size: unavailable
> 
> But there's no reason to have two separate implementations of integer
> to human-readable abbreviation, where one has overflow and stops at
> 'T', while the other avoids overflow and goes all the way to 'E'. With
> this patch, the output now claims 8EiB instead of -8388607T, which
> really is the correct rounding of largest file size supported by qemu
> (we could go 511 bytes larger if we used byte-accurate sizing instead
> of rounding up to the next sector boundary, but that wouldn't change
> the human-readable result).
> 
> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to the block-next branch for 4.1.

Kevin