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Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH][V3] nbd: add multi-connection support
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:09:49PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Okay, I've updated the proto.md file then, to clarify that in the case
> of multiple connections, a client MUST NOT send a flush request until it
> has seen the replies to the write requests that it cares about. That
> should be enough for now.

How do you guarantee that nothing has been reordered or even lost even for
a single connection?