From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R48dh-0004vL-GT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:53:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R48dg-0003xC-MX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:53:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R48dg-0003x0-FO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:53:48 -0400 From: Orit Wasserman Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:52:24 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4E7195EE.2050001@redhat.com> References: <1315628610-28222-1-git-send-email-ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> <4E6DC94C.4090503@redhat.com> <1316003085.2317.28.camel@dhcp-1-120.tlv.redhat.com> <20110914143754.GC12218@lst.de> <20110914154033.GA13411@lst.de> <1316018217.2317.34.camel@dhcp-1-120.tlv.redhat.com> <4E7195EE.2050001@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1316080354.29180.2.camel@dhcp-1-120.tlv.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Kevin Wolf , stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, RonnieSahlberg , Christoph Hellwig On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 08:06 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 09/14/2011 06:36 PM, Orit Wasserman wrote: > > > I think NBD would be fine, especially with a flush command. > > I think NBD would be fine, especially with a flush command. > > If I remember correctly , there is a problem with NBD with an image with > > a backing file chain . NBD client only displays a single file image. > > With ISCSI we can use different luns per image file. > > The NBD protocol supports multiple named exports, just not QEMU's > implementation. I guess we can fix that. Orit > > Paolo