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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:41:56 +0200
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] Stop VM on ENOSPC error.
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:22:04PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> But in the Xen context, a Xen VM is not a `task' in the same way.
> (Xen users make much less use of the built-in cow formats for this
> reason, often preferring LVM snapshots or even deeper storage magic.)
> We expect the VM to be up and stay up and if it can't continue it
> needs to fail or crash.
> 
Even if you can add storage space dynamically with LVM you prefer VM to
crash on ENOSPC?

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			Gleb.