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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Supriya Kannery <supriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Safely reopening image files by stashing fds
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:04:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3BB203.5060703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QV-3_BK61TYbLMGj+ktap-j1_8Prnjbh7MFYT90Tkdgkg@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/05/2011 10:40 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 4. Implement bdrv_reopen()
>
> First call bdrv_extract_fds() to stash the file descriptors, then close the
> block device.  Try opening the new image but if that fails, reopen using the
> stashed file descriptors.

Why not do the latter unconditionally?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05  8:40 [Qemu-devel] Safely reopening image files by stashing fds Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-05  9:04 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-08-05  9:27   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-05  9:55     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-05 13:03       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-05 13:12     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-05 14:28       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-05 15:24         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-05 15:43           ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-05 15:49             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-08  7:02               ` Supriya Kannery
2011-08-08  8:12                 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-09  9:22                   ` supriya kannery
2011-08-09  9:51                     ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-09  9:32                       ` supriya kannery
2011-08-16 19:18                         ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC] " Supriya Kannery
2011-08-16 19:18                         ` Supriya Kannery
2011-08-17 14:35                           ` Kevin Wolf
2011-10-10 18:28                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2011-10-11  5:21                       ` Supriya Kannery
2011-08-05 14:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-05  9:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-05  9:29   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-05  9:48     ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-08 14:49       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-08 15:16         ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-09 10:25           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-09 10:35             ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-09 10:50               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-09 10:56                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-09 11:39                   ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-09 12:00                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-09 12:24                       ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-09 19:39                         ` Blue Swirl
2011-08-10  7:58                           ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-10 17:20                             ` Blue Swirl
2011-08-11  7:37                               ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-11 16:21                                 ` Blue Swirl
2011-08-05 20:16 ` Blue Swirl

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