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...<eblake@redhat.com> --- plugins/nbd/nbdkit-nbd-plugin.pod | 18 ++++- plugins/nbd/nbd.c | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/plugins/nbd/nbdkit-nbd-plugin.pod b/plugins/nbd/nbdkit-nbd-plugin.pod index 4f9efa1..8dd8681 100644 --- a/plugins/nbd/nbdkit-nbd-plugin.pod +++ b/plugins/nbd/nbdkit-nbd-plugin.pod @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ nbdkit-nbd-plugin - nbdkit nbd plugin =head1 SYNOPSIS nbdkit nbd { socket=SOCKNAME | hostname=HOST [port=PORT] } [export=NAME] - [retry=N] + [retry=N] [shared=BOOL] =head1 DESCRIPTION...

I got annoyed by qemu-nbd's default of only allowing a single connection; combine that with nbdkit's nbd plugin, and even 'qemu-nbd --list' of nbdkit counts as the single connection and immediately hangs up. If we introduce a shared mode, then 'qemu-nbd --list' can connect as many times as it wants without killing the original qemu-nbd wrapped by nbdkit. But this in turn