Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:36:22 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: nbd request too big |
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Hi!
> I presume you are using Pavel's server from his web page ? You need to increase > the buffer size that the server uses. This happens as a result of the change > a little while ago of nbd to use the elevator to merge requests at the nbd > client end. If memory serves the maximum size of request is sizeof(header) + > 128 * block_size, so you need to alter the server to use that size. > > You'll find the buffer size in the main loop of the mainloop() function > char buf[20480]; needs increasing (to (131072 + 28) for 1k blocks for example) > and also you'll need to increase the value here (to 131072 in this example): > > if (len > 10240) > err("Request too big!");
Thanx for explanation and would-be patch. I'll apply it into CVS.
Perhaps have acount on sourceforge and you want write access to the CVS?
Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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