On 9/17/19 6:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
+++ b/generator/generator @@ -1066,10 +1066,16 @@ C<\"nbd2\">, etc."; longdesc = "\ For servers which require an export name or can serve different content on different exports, set the C<export_name> to -connect to. This is only relevant for the newstyle protocol. +connect to. The default is the empty string C<\"\">. + +This is only relevant when connecting to servers using the +newstyle protocol as the oldstyle protocol did not support +export names. The NBD protocol limits export names to +4096 bytes, but servers may not support the full length.
nbd_add_meta_context deserves the same text. I'm adding that now... -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org