Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-nbd: only send a limited number of errno codes on the wire

[Eric Blake]

On 05/08/2015 04:27 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/05/2015 12:12, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> The corresponding patch to the NBD protocol description can be found at
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.nbd.general/3154.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> - EFBIG is part of the universal set of errors, but it is also changed
>>>   to ENOSPC because it is pretty similar to ENOSPC or EDQUOT.
>>
>> Perhaps debatable, but I defer to your judgement.
> 
> EFBIG is weird anyway, and requires you (or your parents) to ignore
> SIGXFSZ.  A simpler protocol puts fewer requirements on the client.

Not only that, but if I understand correctly, the only way to trigger
SIGXFSZ or EFBIG is to compile your application to use a smaller off_t
than the maximum the system supports.  That is, it is impossible on
64-bit Linux, and on 32-bit Linux is it possible only when you use
32-bit off_t instead of 64-bit off_t.  But we are dealing with guest
disk images, and practically require 64-bit off_t to make it useful for
all but the oldest of guests.

> 
> (In fact, we probably should ignore SIGXFSZ in QEMU and treat EFBIG like
> ENOSPC everywhere.  Should doesn't mean that it will get on anyone's
> todo list or priority list...).

and if I'm right above, it wouldn't make a difference anyway.

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