From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Crash: When Host HDD is full
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:17:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707121717.32145.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4696530A.2010000@qumranet.com>
> > Besides, most
> > filesystems reserve some space for the superuser, now unless there's a
> > cross-platform way to figure out just how much space that is, you'd still
> > be getting errors despite having 5~10% of the filesystem technically
> > free.
>
> Qemu might freeze the guest when it gets -ENOSPC, and say, retry every
> second or wait for user input on the monitor.
Better would IMHO be to report an IO error to the guest and allow that to
decide what to do. If you're bothered about robustness and reliability then
arbitrarily stopping the guest is not acceptable behaviour. There's no
guarantee that space will become available in a finite timeframe.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-11 15:19 [Qemu-devel] Crash: When Host HDD is full Alexey Eremenko
2007-07-12 15:07 ` Mike Swanson
2007-07-12 16:12 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-12 16:17 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-07-12 16:38 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-12 17:03 ` Paul Brook
2007-07-12 17:13 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-12 16:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-07-12 16:40 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-12 18:36 ` andrzej zaborowski
2007-07-12 20:39 ` Alexey Eremenko
2007-07-19 7:25 ` Adam Bolte
2007-07-19 11:10 ` Andreas Färber
2007-07-19 11:35 ` Alexey Eremenko
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