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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: patch to test vbd loopback sharing issue

To: "Yu, Ping Y" <ping.y.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: patch to test vbd loopback sharing issue
From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:16:30 +0000
Cc: Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@xxxxxxxxxx>, Xen Mailing List <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ricardo C Gonzalez <ricardoz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:48:28AM +0800, Yu, Ping Y wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your patch. In fact, I have another solution for this 
> problem, that is, we can force mode "w" to "r". I have tested this patch and 
> it works quite well in today's xm-test report.

Following Dan Smith's argument that "r" is misleading, given that qemu-dm does
not honour the read-only flag, I have taken Dan Stekloff's patch, using "w!" 
to avoid the multiple writer check, instead.

Ewan.

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