On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 09:56:48AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 11:07 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:57:11AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > >
> > > The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit
> > > cumbersome and hard to exten
On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 11:07 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:57:11AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> >
> > The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit
> > cumbersome and hard to extend. The other problem is we leave a
> > userspace app sitting in it's s
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:57:11AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit
> cumbersome and hard to extend. The other problem is we leave a
> userspace app sitting in it's syscall until the device disconnects,
> which is less than ideal.
True.