X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=src%2Fguestfs.pod;h=915d8605a3759f94a7a0b854f1f7b9be03abecb9;hb=478f6c5bdbe4b7e466fe7eaca63aaba002f585ce;hp=7cfd2b29723f7639b368cbd1c23704306cecaf50;hpb=40f2b698ac765128bfcda5f0db893c95d09ae89a;p=libguestfs.git diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod index 7cfd2b2..915d860 100644 --- a/src/guestfs.pod +++ b/src/guestfs.pod @@ -2671,6 +2671,10 @@ actions. L command and documentation. +=item C + +L command and documentation. + =item C C API example code. @@ -2819,6 +2823,15 @@ We have tested block devices up to 1 exabyte (2**60 or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes) using sparse files backed by an XFS host filesystem. +Although libguestfs probably does not impose any limit, the underlying +host storage will. If you store disk images on a host ext4 +filesystem, then the maximum size will be limited by the maximum ext4 +file size (currently 16 TB). If you store disk images as host logical +volumes then you are limited by the maximum size of an LV. + +For the hugest disk image files, we recommend using XFS on the host +for storage. + =head2 MAXIMUM SIZE OF A PARTITION The MBR (ie. classic MS-DOS) partitioning scheme uses 32 bit sector