Re: [Xen-devel] qemu and xl semantics

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 09:57 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:

> 
> Yes. The only one pitfall of the block protocol is the limitation to
> 32kb blocksize. NetBSD uses 64kb blocksize. The NetBSD domU has to
> split it into two requests and the backend driver has to merge it
> again.
[...]
> Ok. Can the qemu based block backend handle 64kb blocksize? 

I wasn't aware of this limitation. Do you mean the "sector-size" value
passed from backend to frontend via xenstore?

That appears to be 512 for the qemu backend.

Ian.


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