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From: Paul Jakma <paul@jakma.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Image Corruption Possible with
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Alexander Graf wrote:

> Paul Jakma wrote:

>> I think that's unlikely, and it'd be nice if QEMU by default did a
>> fcntl() on writeable image files to lock itself from multiple access,
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I'm usually running one "main" qemu instance that has read/write 
> access to the disk file and several others for tests that use the 
> -snapshot option, so I think it's very important to have an easy 
> means of switching this check off.

Of course. Though, I said 'writeable' - so you might not need to use 
such an option.. ;)

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul@clubi.ie	paul@jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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