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To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Am 06.03.2013 um 18:39 hat Dietmar Maurer geschrieben:
> > > > How about variable block sizes? I mean this is a stream format that
> > > > has a header for each block anyway. Include a size there and be done.
> > >
> > > You can make that as complex as you want. I simply do not need that.
> > 
> > Then you also don't need the performance that you lose by using NBD.
> 
> Why exactly?

Because your format kills more performance than any NBD connection
could.

Kevin