Re: [Nbd] Question about the expected behaviour of nbd-server for async ops

[Alex Bligh <alex@...872...>]

--On 30 May 2011 14:13:04 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@...186...> 
wrote:

> > I don't think that not supporting extremely large requests is going to
> > be a problem in practice, providing we return a proper error code.
>
> Maybe there should be an option field for this so client and server can
> agree on a reasonable size. The client MUST then split larger requests
> into smaller chunks.

Note you will need to fix the kernel module (I think) if you want to limit
the maximum size of a request. I am not aware of any current limit
on the size of a request (other than 2^32 bytes).

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Alex Bligh