From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] bdrv_flush error handling
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802201646.05521.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18364.22321.98451.446676@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
> Write errors for non-raw formats can easily be caused by a disk full
> situation on the host. Killing the guest hard is unfriendly for that
> situation.
Disk full is a fundamentally unfriendly situation to be in. There is no good
answer. Reporting errors back to the host has its own set of problems. Many
guest OS effectively just lock up when this occurs.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-20 15:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] bdrv_flush error handling Ian Jackson
2008-02-20 16:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-02-20 16:13 ` Ian Jackson
2008-02-20 16:19 ` Paul Brook
2008-02-20 16:23 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-20 16:37 ` Ian Jackson
2008-02-20 16:46 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-02-20 16:53 ` Ian Jackson
2008-02-20 16:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-20 18:17 ` Paul Brook
2008-02-20 16:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-20 18:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-02-20 19:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-20 19:55 ` Rick Vernam
2008-02-21 7:10 ` Thomas Irlet
2008-02-21 17:19 ` Ben Taylor
2008-02-21 17:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-02-21 17:28 ` risc
2008-02-21 18:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-03-28 17:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Jackson
2008-04-26 15:15 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-04-29 16:27 ` Ian Jackson
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