Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements

From: Eric Blake
Date: Thu Sep 15 2016 - 15:02:38 EST


On 09/15/2016 11:27 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:08:21PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
>> Wouter,
>>
>>> The server can always refuse to allow multiple connections.
>>
>> Sure, but it would be neater to warn the client of that at negotiation
>> stage (it would only be one flag, e.g. 'multiple connections
>> unsafe').
>
> I suppose that's not a bad idea.

Seems like it may need to be a per-export flag, rather than a global
flag (as a given server may be able to serve multiple types of files,
where the safety depends on the type of file being served).


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