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Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] nbd: set the logical and physical blocksize properly



On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 21:07 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > 
> > On 10 Feb 2017, at 19:06, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...2204...> wrote:
> > 
> > We noticed when trying to do O_DIRECT to an export on the server
> > side
> > that we were getting requests smaller than the 4k sectorsize of the
> > device.  This is because the client isn't setting the logical and
> > physical blocksizes properly for the underlying device.  Fix this
> > up by
> > setting the queue blocksizes and then calling bd_set_size.
> Interesting. Some input into the info extension (re blocksizes) would
> definitely be appreciated.
> 

What do you mean?  Right now the client is just calling NBD_SET_BLKSIZE
with 4k blocksize since all of our devices are 4k drives.  Thanks,

Josef



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