Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Image Corruption Possible with qemu and qemu-kvm

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> I think this is the right level myself.  Advisory locks work okay but
>> not all filesystems support them.  It's particularly nasty when you have
>> a clustered filesystem in the host.  I think it would do more harm than
>> good to have a feature like that was supposed to provide a safe-guard
>> but then frequently didn't work.
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Are you trying to say that any kind of significant portion of QEMU
> users have clustered file-systems?
>
> I think that's unlikely, and it'd be nice if QEMU by default did a
> fcntl() on writeable image files to lock itself from multiple access,
> that'd benefit the vast majority of users.
>
> Let the 0.x% of users who need to run with weird/esoteric fses cope..
>
> regards,
I'm usually running one "main" qemu instance that has read/write access
to the disk file and several others for tests that use the -snapshot
option, so I think it's very important to have an easy means of
switching this check off.

just my 2 cents,

Alexander Graf