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Re: [Xen-users] Is using w! safe to share data between domains?
Your scheme has a race condition in it. Suppose that a partition has
opened sda3 read-only and right between after seeing the tag-file
doesn't exist and re-mounting the partition, someone else comes in and
creates the tag file. You know have to partitions that have followed
your rules and have simultaneously opened the partition read-write.
Even if you eliminated the race condition, in general, it's probably not
a good idea to open a file system (even if it's read-only) while someone
else has it open read-write. There's no guarantee the meta-data is
going to be in a consistent state.
Your best bet is probably to use networking to share data between
partitions.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
I have a slightly unusual situation where I need to pass data from one
domain to another but, for security reasons, one of the domains will not
be on the network. I would like to pass the data via a shared disk
partition. I would like to know if what I have done is safe.
I created a disk partition named /dev/VG1/pkipass.
Each domU disk definition contains: 'phy:VG1/pkipass,sda3,w!'
None of the domUs automatically mounts this device.
When one domU needs to deposit data for another domU to pick up (this
exchange is always a manual effort to first deposit the shared data and
then retrieve the shared data), we do the following:
The depositing domU mounts sda3 read-only.
It looks for a tag file -- this tag file is created when a domU has
mounted the partition as read-write
If the tag-file exists {
it unmounts the partition
it sleeps briefly
it retries
}
else {
it remounts the partition read-write
it creates the tag file
it deposits the data
it deletes the tag fie
it unmounts the partition
}
A similar process is used to retrieve the data.
Is this safe?
Thanks - John
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