[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/23/2010 01:27 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini writes ("Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks"):
>    
> > We tried to get that to work, and we could not really find a device
> > error that worked reliably in the guests.  We often got infinite loops
> > on mount or little after that, on both Linux and Windows.
> >      
> That's fine.  If the admins don't want that then they can use SCSI or
> PV or simply not tell the guest to write to the device.
>
> Disallowing the configuration entirely just because the error handling
> is suboptimal (but safe!) is not correct.
>
> Ian.
>    
Why do you think so, Ian? This follows the IDE specifications to 
disallow read-only IDE disks since the specs doesn't support IDE 
read-only disks. The only read-only device being supported by IDE specs 
is the CD-ROM device.
Michal

--
Michal Novotny<minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat


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