On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:18:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Personally, I'm not entirely sure that libcurl really maps well to NBD,
> > tbh, since NBD is not a "one request per URL" protocol like most other
> > libcurl-supported protocols currently are (at least for the most part).
>
> I'd have to agree to this, but for slightly different reasons. libcurl is
> designed for transferring files, whether those are bitmapped images, mail
> messages, dictionary definitions or anything else. NBD seems to be a low level
> protocol for transferring disk blocks. There's a big mismatch between the two
> (as your comment above and others indicate) and I suspect you'll find more
> problems as you try to implement support. [...]

We already use libcurl in qemu for read/write access to remote disk
images. So there's a proof of existence that it's possible.

  https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=block/curl.c

Rich.

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