Re: [PATCH 2.5.73] nbd: maintain compatibility with existing nbd

[Paul Clements]

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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Pavel Machek 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.
> 
> You are the maintainer, you can go to the linus directly. (I hope
> Linus took that MAINTAINERS patch).

Not yet, I don't think...

> [Aha, if you wanted *Andrew* to apply it... I guess it is better to
> say directly who do you want to take it.]

Well, it's just that Andrew seems particularly willing to help on this,
so that's why I sent to him...

At any rate, Andrew, here's a cleaned up version of the patch... please apply.

Thanks,
Paul

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