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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 - safe on kill?  safe on power fail?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:22:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080722142254.GB20829@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48857926.5020708@qumranet.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> >Seems like a band-aid to me as SIGKILL is still an issue.  Plus it 
> >would involve modifying all disk formats, not just QCOW2.  I'd rather 
> >see proper journal support added to QCOW2 myself.
> 
> Journalling is so out of fashion.  It's better to sequence the 
> operations so that failure results in a leak instead of corruption.

That would be find.  If there's too much leakage after a time, it
would be easy enough to "qemu convert" to recreate the image without
leakage.

Or trees, trees are the new journals... :-)  Still there's always
the possibility of errors to recover from, no matter how careful.

-- Jamie

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-22 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 21:18 [Qemu-devel] Signal handling and qcow2 image corruption David Barrett
2008-03-05 21:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-05 23:48   ` David Barrett
2008-03-06  6:57   ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-21 18:10   ` [Qemu-devel] qcow2 - safe on kill? safe on power fail? Jamie Lokier
2008-07-21 19:43     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-21 21:26       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-21 22:14         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-21 23:47           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-22  6:06           ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 14:08             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-22 14:46               ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-22 19:11               ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 14:32             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-21 22:00       ` Andreas Schwab
2008-07-21 22:15         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-21 22:22           ` David Barrett
2008-07-21 22:50             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-22  6:07           ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 14:11             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-22 14:36               ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 16:16                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-22 19:13                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 20:04                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-22 21:25                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 14:22             ` Jamie Lokier [this message]

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