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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv5] block: add native support for NFS
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Il 10/01/2014 18:16, ronnie sahlberg ha scritto:
> 
> There is a common exception though, for the case where you read past
> the end of file.
> So short reads should normally not happen. Unless QEMU or the guest
> sends a request to libnfs to read past the end of the file.

Yes, this can happen in QEMU and the various drivers are careful to pad
with zeroes.  It could perhaps be moved to block.c, but for now each
driver handles it separately.

Paolo