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From: Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-tools] Re: [PATCH] Make xend reject duplicates
	and rename zombies
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:19:47 +0100
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On 9/16/05, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking specifically about block devices.  While the domain may
> have died, there may be requests in the block devices queues that have
> not been flushed to disk yet.  This is what would lead to problems..

sure, but the logic which prevents you from using the same block
device multiple times should kick in at this point -- granted, that
code's a bit broken right now...

    christian