From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKgmv-0006H3-Ab for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:41 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKgmq-0006EL-Di for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48764 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKgmq-0006E4-63 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:36 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:56057) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKgmp-0003g3-SZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:26:33 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH VERSION 3] Disk image exclusive and shared locks. Message-ID: <20091215232633.GD26319@shareable.org> References: <20091215164238.GA24410@amd.home.annexia.org> <20091215183345.GA21298@shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091215183345.GA21298@shareable.org> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Jamie Lokier wrote: > > At Kevin Wolf's suggestion, > > lock=exclusive|shared => all backing disks are locked shared > > lock=none => no locks are acquired on any front or back disks > > What do you recommend when backing disks are shared? Please ignore that part of my reply. It was meant to be deleted after I'd read the parent propely :-) -- Jamie