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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host
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Laurent Vivier |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] To mount qemu disk image on the host |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:17:10 +0100 |
Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 20:52 +0100, Andre Przywara a écrit :
> Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 à 09:18 -0600, Anthony Liguori a écrit :
> >> Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> this patch allows to mount qemu disk images on the host.
> >>>
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't see you did a similar work 19 months ago.
> >> Note, the general problem with this approach is that mounting a NBD
> >> device locally with write access can lead to dead locks. If you look
> >> through the mailing list archives, you'll find a number of conversations
> >> on the topic.
> I sometimes ago was also working on a nbd implementation for
> qcow-images, but I came to the same deadlock conclusion. (At least
> theoretically, I didn't finish this as I ran first into debugging
> problems and secondly out of time). But IMHO this only applies to
> localhost mounts, real network mounting should work (this is actually
As it seems a problem related to the page cache, perhaps we could open
the QCOW file with O_DIRECT to avoid the problem ?
Laurent
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