[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] Change the default protocol to newstyle.
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Tue Jan 23 20:19:05 UTC 2018
On 01/23/2018 01:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> nbdkit <= 1.1.28 defaulted to the oldstyle protocol for compatibility
> with qemu and libguestfs. However qemu >= 2.6 can now work with
> either protocol and is widely installed. Also newstyle is required
> for newer features such as export names and TLS. In addition
> nbd-client dropped support for oldstyle entirely.
>
> You can select the oldstyle protocol by adding ‘-o’, and it is still
> tested.
Looks right to me.
> ---
> TODO | 6 ++++++
> docs/nbdkit.pod | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
> src/main.c | 2 +-
> tests/test-single.sh | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
(Yay - my test-nbd was already set up for proper explicit use of -o vs.
-n, so it still covers both styles regardless of the default)
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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