dm thin: relax hard limit on the maximum size of a metadata device
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: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index a680c76..737d388 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -713,6 +713,9 @@
if (r)
goto bad;
+ if (bdev_size > THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS)
+ bdev_size = THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS;
+
disk_super = dm_block_data(sblock);
disk_super->magic = cpu_to_le64(THIN_SUPERBLOCK_MAGIC);
disk_super->version = cpu_to_le32(THIN_VERSION);