Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] iotests: Use new-style NBD connections

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

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On 2017-11-09 23:12, Eric Blake wrote:
> Old-style NBD is deprecated upstream (it is documented, but no
> longer implemented in the reference implementation), and it is
> severely limited (it cannot support structured replies, which
> means it cannot support efficient handling of zeroes), when
> compared to new-style NBD.  We are better off having our iotests
> favor new-style everywhere (although some explicit tests,
> particularly 83, still cover old-style for back-compat reasons);
> this is as simple as supplying the empty string as the default
> export name, as it does not change the URI needed to connect a
> client to the server.  This also gives us more coverage of the
> just-added structured reply code, when not overriding $QEMU_NBD
> to intentionally point to an older server.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Proposing this for 2.11; it can either go in through the NBD
> tree (although I just send my 2.11-rc1 pull request) or through
> Max' iotest tree.

random.org said 1, so: Thanks, applied to my block branch:

https://github.com/XanClic/qemu/commits/block

Max


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