On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:14:46PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 30 May 2011 14:13:04 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> 
> 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.

Correct.

> I am not aware of any current limit on the size of a request (other
> than 2^32 bytes).

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