From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Naphtali Sprei <nsprei@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] block: Enable fall-back to read-only for backing file
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:27:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100201092756.GA21616@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BBC20A29-FD6E-45EE-89C3-D3524F0CE1FB@suse.de>
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:25:52AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> We don't know beforehand if a user will use the commit comnand during
> tje runtime of the vm.
>
> IMHO it'd be best to always open backing files read only and try to
> open them for write access on the commit command. That command can
> then fail gaciously.
That's another option. Basically this means opening another
BlockDriverState for the backing device that is writeable inside
bdrv_commit().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-01 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-31 16:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Enable fall-back to read-only for backing file Naphtali Sprei
2010-02-01 8:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-02-01 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-01 9:25 ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-01 9:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-02-01 10:05 ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-01 12:32 ` Jamie Lokier
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