From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs5E-0004om-Ux for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:46:13 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs5D-0004nC-B8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:46:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs5D-0004n3-53 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:46:11 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRs5C-0002uB-IW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:46:10 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] bdrv_flush error handling Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:04 +0000 References: <18364.19722.241175.337829@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <47BC5415.4020102@qumranet.com> <18364.22321.98451.446676@mariner.uk.xensource.com> In-Reply-To: <18364.22321.98451.446676@mariner.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802201646.05521.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Ian Jackson > 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