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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH VERSION 3] Disk image exclusive and shared locks
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH VERSION 3] Disk image exclusive and shared locks. |
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:06:24 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:53:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If you're primarily interested in protection against other qemu
> instances you can add you code on top, but that seems like a rather
> marginal use case.
It's a pretty serious case for people accessing live virtual machines
with the libguestfs tools. I'd like to make it impossible (or at
least harder) for them to corrupt their disk images.
Rich.
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