Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status
- To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@...2319...>
- Cc: "nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net" <nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@...696...>, "Denis V . Lunev" <den@...2317...>, "qemu-devel@...530..." <qemu-devel@...530...>, Pavel Borzenkov <pborzenkov@...2319...>, "Stefan stefanha@...2321... com" <stefanha@...696...>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...696...>, Markus Pargmann <mpa@...1897...>, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>, John Snow <jsnow@...696...>
- Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status
- From: Alex Bligh <alex@...872...>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:00:41 +0000
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> On 20 Jan 2017, at 17:04, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@...2723...9...> wrote:
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> About extents: is 32bit length enough? We will have to send 4096 for empty 16tb disk..
The nbd protocol uniformly uses 32 bit lengths (for better or for worse). This is baked into the specification heavily.
I'm not sure sending 4,096 items for an empty 16TB disk is any great hardship to be honest.
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Alex Bligh
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