Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] block-backend: allow flush on devices with open tray

[Eric Blake]

On 09/01/2016 04:56 PM, John Snow wrote:
> If a device still has an attached BDS because the medium has not yet
> been removed, we will be unable to migrate to a new host because
> blk_flush will return an error for that backend.
> 
> Replace the call to blk_is_available to blk_is_inserted to weaken
> the check and allow flushes from the backend to work, while still
> disallowing flushes from the frontend/device model to work.

Sounds slightly nicer if you stop short: s/ to work//

> 
> This fixes a regression present in 2.6.0 caused by the following commit:
> fe1a9cbc339bb54d20f1ca4c1e8788d16944d5cf
> block: Move some bdrv_*_all() functions to BB
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/block-backend.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

However, I don't have an offhand suggestion on how best to test it.

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