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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [6388] Stop VM on ENOSPC error.
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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Revision: 6388
>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=6388
> Author:   aliguori
> Date:     2009-01-21 18:59:04 +0000 (Wed, 21 Jan 2009)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Stop VM on ENOSPC error. (Gleb Natapov)
>
> This version of the patch adds new option "werror" to -drive flag.
> Possible values are:
>
> report    - report errors to a guest as IO errors
> ignore    - continue as if nothing happened
> stop      - stop VM on any error and retry last command on resume
> enospc    - stop vm on ENOSPC error and retry last command on resume
>             all other errors are reported to a guest.
>
> Default is "report" to maintain current behaviour.
>   

I recently got burnt by the default being "report".  I was doing an 
installation and ran out of disk space.  The guest did not do anything 
intelligible with the error reports and froze very hard (as you'd expect).

Any objection to changing to default to enospc?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>