Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263714AbTIHWai (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:30:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263718AbTIHWaR (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:30:17 -0400 Received: from mailgate.uni-paderborn.de ([131.234.22.32]:48527 "EHLO mailgate.uni-paderborn.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263714AbTIHW2X (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:28:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5D0186.4030001@upb.de> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:24:06 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Paul Clements , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [NBD] patch and documentation References: <3F5CB554.5040507@upb.de> <20030908193838.GA435@elf.ucw.cz> <3F5CE0E5.A5A08A91@SteelEye.com> <3F5CE3E6.8070201@upb.de> <3F5CF045.DDDE475C@SteelEye.com> <3F5CFF0B.6080609@upb.de> <20030908222111.GG429@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030908222111.GG429@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://imap.upb.de for details X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-15.7, required 4, IN_REP_TO -3.30, REFERENCES -6.60, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA -5.80) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 14 >>Another idea would be to be abled to specify the max_sectors while >>connecting an NBD. That would add an optional paramter to the nbd-client >>command line. (like it is possible for the blocksize) > > I do not see why it should be configurable... We may regret to use a certain value, although i agree that 1MB should be sufficient for the future. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/