[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] protocol: Implement NBD_OPT_GO.

[Eric Blake]

On 08/06/2018 09:31 AM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> Eric, can you point us to the part of the spec allowing ignoring the export
> name sent by the client?

Nothing in the NBD spec requires the server to reject unknown export 
names. So nbdkit never rejects export names (which means it behaves as 
if all names work, regardless of whether or not it was the name it was 
configured with, since it exports exactly one volume all the time).

An NBD server that exports more than one volume at a time (such as qemu 
via QMP [but oddly not qemu-nbd], or nbd-server) DOES have to pay 
attention to export names. And if nbdkit were ever taught to manage more 
than one export at once, then that would also imply that export names 
matter.  But until then, I don't see nbdkit's behavior as a spec violation.

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