On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On advice from Alex Bligh I'd like to ping linux-block and nbd-general
> about the issue described here:
> https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/issues/44
> 
> What basically happens is, that with a recent kernel (Linux heisenberg
> 4.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2 (2017-01-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux),
> when a device larger than something between 1 TiB and 2 TiB is 
> exported
> via nbd-server and connected to via nbd-client (which uses the kernel
> driver, AFAIU) than the device size gets insanely large while reading
> from /dev/nbd0 gives actually nothing.
> 
> 
> The bug does not seem to happen when the kernel is not involved (we
> tried using nbd-server and qemu-img as the client).
> 
> Don't think it makes all too much sense to copy & paste everything 
> from
> what was tried already for testing here, so please have a look at the
> issue on github.

Yeah I noticed this in testing, there's a bug with NBD since it's 
inception where it uses a 32 bit number for keeping track of the size 
of the device, I fixed it with

nbd: use loff_t for blocksize and nbd_set_size args

It'll be in 4.10.  Thanks,

Josef


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