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    dm thin: relax hard limit on the maximum size of a metadata device · c4a69ecd
    Mike Snitzer authored
    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: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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