Re: FYI: Go implementation of the NBD protocol
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Axel Wagner wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> no, I have only tested against nbd-{client,server} and the Linux kernel
> implementation. Compatibility simply hasn't been a huge priority for me :)
>
> Personally, it seems more efficient to me to have one reference
> implementation and testsuite to run against new implementations, than to
> require each new implementation to build a new testsuite for each existing
> one. For example, I don't know nbdkit at all and know very little about
> qemu. The thought of having to figure out how to run a client/server of
> each and actually observe the outcomes of a testsuite seems… dreadful.
> Whereas if you'd give me a binary that I can just point at my server and it
> gives me a list of protocol-violations, I'd be fine to fix them all.
I don't disagree but the chances of us having a reference
implementation which fully tests the protocol any time soon is slim.
In the meantime testing against lots of clients/servers is the best bet.
For reference here are the commands to test against qemu, qemu-nbd and
nbdkit:
# Issue single read command using qemu client:
qemu-io -f raw -c 'read -v <offset> <len>' 'nbd+unix://?socket=sock'
qemu-io -f raw -c 'read -v <offset> <len>' 'nbd://localhost:10809/export'
# Write a test pattern using qemu client:
qemu-io -f raw -c 'write -P 11 <offset> <len>' 'nbd+unix://?socket=sock'
qemu-io -f raw -c 'write -P 11 <offset> <len>' 'nbd://localhost:10809/export'
# Boot a guest using qemu client:
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm:tcg -cpu host -m 2048 \
-drive file=nbd:localhost:10809,format=raw,if=virtio
# Run qemu-nbd (server) on a local file on 10809/tcp:
qemu-nbd -x /export -t disk.img
# Run nbdkit (server) on a local file on 10809/tcp:
nbdkit file file=disk.img
HTH,
Rich.
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