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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:19:34 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Paul.Clements@steeleye.com
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Subject: Re: nbd request too big
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Hi!

> If you're using the nbd-server from Pavel Machek's web site, you'll need to patch 
> nbd-server.c to make it work on ~2.4.3+ kernels. My patched version of nbd-server.c
> and cliserv.h are attached. The patched files make the server's request buffer be
> dynamically allocated, so any size request can be handled by the server. 
> The patched version also fixes some other outdated code (e.g., llseek -> lseek64).

You seem to be have used old version of nbd-server to do the
patch. Could you port it to new version (at nbd.sourceforge.net) and
mail me a patch?

									Pavel
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