[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #494134] Savannah colonialone - vcs-noshell issues

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:12:18PM -0400, Daniel Clark via RT wrote:
> ward had the idea that maybe a domU was using the filesystem and someone
> simultaneously did a mount from the dom0. As far as we know there is no
> way to tell if a device is being used by a domU without the xen-specific
> tools. 
> 
> Does that sound like a possibility?

No. Xen now checks this, it fails when you try to do so.
Even then I checked that this wasn't the case.

A LVM snapshot of the volume was temporarily created for backup
purpose, while the original volume was being used by Xen. I expect
this to work without issues (to the least it does for the
download+arch+bzr system).

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Sylvain