Re: [Xen-tools] Re: [PATCH] Make xend reject duplicates and rename zombies

[Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@gmail.com>]

On 9/16/05, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >I think renaming would make sense if a domain is crashed.  You might
> >want to keep the domain around to attach a debugger to it but at the
> >same time restart a fresh copy as soon as possible.
>
> As long as you can make sure to rename *after* all of the devices have
> been properly torn down.
> 
> Otherwise, we need to make sure to make it well known that restarting a
> domain after a crash can result in very bad things :-)

How so?  The crashed domain is certainly not going to do anything with
those devices anymore...  Actually, I'm not even sure I buy the
"unsafe to reuse devices" argument if the domain is only hanging
around in an almost dead state -- it's almost dead, it's not going to
do any requests on those devices anymore...

So regarding the check for termination in check_name, if we only
switch the state to terminated once the domain is almost dead, reusing
the name should be fine...

    christian