Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 - safe on kill? safe on power fail?

[Andreas Schwab]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:

> The only ways that you can cause corruption is if the QCOW2 sector
> allocation code is faulty (and you would be screwed no matter what here)
> or if you issue a SIGTERM/SIGKILL that interrupts the code while it's
> allocating a new sector.

Blocking SIGTERM until the allocation is finished could close that hole.

Andreas.

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