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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 3/3] docs: Document share-rw property more thorou
From: |
Fam Zheng |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 3/3] docs: Document share-rw property more thoroughly |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:29:15 +0800 |
Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
---
docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi b/docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi
index cd74767ed3..f1793692bb 100644
--- a/docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi
+++ b/docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi
@@ -845,6 +845,16 @@ QEMU transparently handles lock handover during shared
storage migration. For
shared virtual disk images between multiple VMs, the "share-rw" device option
should be used.
+By default, the guest has exclusive write access to its disk image. If the
+guest can safely share the disk image with other writers the @code{-device
+...,share-rw=on} parameter can be used. This is only safe if the guest is
+running software, such as a cluster file system, that coordinates disk accesses
+to avoid corruption.
+
+Note that share-rw=on only declares the guest's ability to share the disk.
+Some QEMU features, such as image file formats, require exclusive write access
+to the disk image and this is unaffected by the share-rw=on option.
+
Alternatively, locking can be fully disabled by "locking=off" block device
option. In the command line, the option is usually in the form of
"file.locking=off" as the protocol driver is normally placed as a "file" child
--
2.14.3
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U, Fam Zheng, 2018/02/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 1/3] qemu-img.texi: Clean up parameter list, Fam Zheng, 2018/02/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/3] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U, Fam Zheng, 2018/02/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 3/3] docs: Document share-rw property more thoroughly,
Fam Zheng <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2018/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U, Kashyap Chamarthy, 2018/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U, Kevin Wolf, 2018/02/09