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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add iSCSI support for QEMU
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To: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, RonnieSahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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.

Paolo