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Re: Simplified protocol?



On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:23:41PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Actually, nbd-client defaults to 1024, and has done that for a *long*
> time :-)

Yes this is really annoying because it means that the default is to
always fail when you loopback mount a partitioned disk image.  The
Linux kernel assumes a 1K sector size and computes all partition
offsets wrongly.  Can we change this?

Rich.

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