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Bug#851533: NBD: exported files over something around 1 TiB get an insane device size on the client side and are actually empty



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On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 00:35 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Source: linux
> Version: 4.9.2-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch upstream
> 
> 
> Hey.
> 
> There's an issue in NBD which prevents some larger images to be
> correctly "connected" on the client side (if done by the kernel),
> largely described here:
> https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/issues/44
> 
> Thers's a patch at:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg07060.html
> from Josef Bacik which seems to fix the issue (at least it does
> so for me) but this will only go into 4.10.
> 
> So if 4.9 is the version for stretch, you might want to cherry
> pick this, as suggested by Wouter Verhelst.

This should possibly go to 4.9-stable, but in any case I've queued it
up for our next upload.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug

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