Re: [NBD] patch and documentation

[Paul Clements]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > >>Another idea would be to be abled to specify the max_sectors while
> > >>connecting an NBD. That would add an optional paramter to the nbd-client
> > >>command line. (like it is possible for the blocksize)
> > >
> > >I do not see why it should be configurable...
> >
> > We may regret to use a certain value, although i agree that 1MB should
> > be sufficient for the future.
> 
> I believe that 1MB is good, and good enough for close future. If that
> ever proves to be problem, we can add handshake at that point. But I
> do not believe it will be neccessary.

But, who ever said the buffer in the nbd-server had to be statically
allocated? I have a version of nbd-server that is modified to handle any
size request that the client side throws at it -- if the buffer is not
large enough, it simply reallocates it.

--
Paul
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