From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH VERSION 3] Disk image exclusive and shared locks.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:06:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091217110624.GK6518@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091217105345.GB17205@lst.de>
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:53:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If you're primarily interested in protection against other qemu
> instances you can add you code on top, but that seems like a rather
> marginal use case.
It's a pretty serious case for people accessing live virtual machines
with the libguestfs tools. I'd like to make it impossible (or at
least harder) for them to corrupt their disk images.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-15 16:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH VERSION 3] Disk image exclusive and shared locks Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-15 18:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 18:09 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-12-15 18:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 18:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-15 23:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-16 10:37 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-17 13:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-17 10:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-17 11:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2009-12-17 15:38 ` Jamie Lokier
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