Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] iotests: Use new-style NBD connections

2017-11-09 Thread Max Reitz
On 2017-11-09 23:12, Eric Blake wrote: > Old-style NBD is deprecated upstream (it is documented, but no > longer implemented in the reference implementation), and it is > severely limited (it cannot support structured replies, which > means it cannot support efficient handling of zeroes), when >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] iotests: Use new-style NBD connections

2017-11-09 Thread Eric Blake
Old-style NBD is deprecated upstream (it is documented, but no longer implemented in the reference implementation), and it is severely limited (it cannot support structured replies, which means it cannot support efficient handling of zeroes), when compared to new-style NBD. We are better off