On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Lou Langholtz wrote:
> [ ... ] In the meantime, the nbd-client tool currently can't correctly set
> the size of the device and either that needs to be worked around in the
> driver (I'd done that in the original jumbo patch), or the nbd-client
> tool needs to be updated (the patch I'd mailed out for nbd-client works
> around the sizing issue by re-opening the nbd). To be clear, that's not
> something any of the changes that have gone in so far broke nor address.
> It's a consequence of how bd_set_size() is called in fs/block_dev.c
> do_open().
And here's the (tiny) patch for nbd to maintain compatibility with the
existing nbd-client tool. Compiled and tested on a couple machines.
Please apply.
Thanks,
Paul
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