Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd structured reply

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 05:57:07PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> The obvious behavior of client is to fail the whole read if it received one
> error chunk.

Not necessarily.

If a user-space program requests to read X bytes of data, but there is
an error at X-N, then the obvious way to handle that is for the read()
call to return with X-N bytes first, and for the next read() call to
return with -1, and errno set to EIO.

Structured reads allow for that kind of behaviour.

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