--On 6 October 2011 12:53:55 +0200 Folkert van Heusden <folk...@vanheusden.com> wrote:
> What is the maximum size of a read/write request? E.g. how much data can > be requested/transmitted using one read or write command? I do not think there is a protocol limitation. According to Paul, there is a kernel limitation on how much it will in practice use, but I am not sure what that is nor whether it in practice applies if something unconventional (e.g. a hypervisor) is talking direct to the block layer. nbd-server is written to handle arbitrary length requests (ok, I have not checked operations longer than 2^31 bytes). > And can this be limited using a nbd-client command-line setting and/or > nbd protocol handshake? Not currently. -- Alex Bligh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list Nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
