Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5]: QMP: Proper thin provisioning support

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:26:30 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:11:38PM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > > > It's already possible for QMP clients to implement this feature by using
> > > > the BLOCK_IO_ERROR event. However, the event can be missed. When this
> > > > happens QMP clients need a way to query if any block device has hit a
> > > > no space condition.
> > > 
> > > We have a mode where we stop the VM when it hits ENOSPC, and that is
> > > the only reliably way to handle it. 
> > 
> > This series just complements that mode by allowing a mngt application
> > to query which device triggered the ENOSPC. Well, that's my intention :)
> 
> Oh, so you only plan to use the QMP command post-mortem?  That makes a lot
> more sense.  

Yes. Calling it 'proper thin provisioning support' was too ambitious from
my part.

> But relying on that fact should also help to simplify the
> implementation and make it more robust by storing the error code from
> the same place that we stop them VM.

Yes, I think I'll do that.