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From: "andrzej zaborowski" <balrog@zabor.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 18:22:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb249edb0605120922y20f20f64yca3dcd75eef49969@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060512143517.GL15855@narn.hozed.org>

Hi there,

> >  o If the files comprising the device are deleted (for example) while
> >    QEMU is running then this is quite bad.  Currently this will result
> >    in read/write requests returning -1.  Maybe it makes sense to panic
> >    and cause QEMU to exit.
> >
>
> at the very least, the console should print an error. If you can keep
> all the files open, deleting the file won't be a problem.
>

I think 99% of the software used today assumes nobody deletes its
files while it's running and it's not a very bad assumption. QEMU is
not particularly verbose about errors in general, but if it was going
to check for a deleted file, I think it should rather report an I/O
error to the guest than print errors to the console.

Greetings,
Andrew
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-12 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-11  6:30 [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images Ryan Lortie
2006-05-12 14:35 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2006-05-12 15:54   ` Ryan Lortie
2006-05-12 16:22   ` andrzej zaborowski [this message]
2006-05-12 20:21 ` Flavio Visentin
2006-05-12 21:45   ` Ryan Lortie

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