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Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements

From Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements
Date 2016-09-15 17:30 +0200
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Eric,

> I doubt that qemu-nbd would ever want to support the situation with more
> than one client connection writing to the same image at the same time;
> the implications of sorting out data consistency between multiple
> writers is rather complex and not worth coding into qemu.  So I think
> qemu would probably prefer to just prohibit the multiple writer
> situation.

Yeah, I was thinking about a 'no multiple connection' flag.

>  And while multiple readers with no writer should be fine,
> I'm not even sure if multiple readers plus one writer can always be made
> to appear sane (if there is no coordination between the different
> connections, on an image where the writer changes AA to BA then flushes
> then changes to BB, it is still feasible that a reader could see AB
> (pre-flush state of the first sector, post-flush changes to the second
> sector, even though the writer never flushed that particular content to
> disk).

Agree

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Alex Bligh




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Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-09 22:20 +0200
  Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-09 23:00 +0200
    Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-09-10 01:40 +0200
  Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 13:00 +0200
    Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 13:20 +0200
      Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 13:40 +0200
        Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 13:50 +0200
          Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 13:50 +0200
            Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:00 +0200
              Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 14:10 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:30 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:30 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 14:30 +0200
              Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:10 +0200
      Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 13:40 +0200
      Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2016-09-15 15:40 +0200
        Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-09-15 16:10 +0200
          Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 17:30 +0200
            Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-09-15 23:20 +0200
        Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 17:30 +0200
    Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 13:50 +0200
      Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:00 +0200
    Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 13:50 +0200
    Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 14:00 +0200
      Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:10 +0200
        Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:20 +0200
          Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:20 +0200
            Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:30 +0200
        Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 14:30 +0200
          Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:30 +0200
            Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:40 +0200
              Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:40 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:50 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 14:50 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 15:20 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 17:20 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 18:10 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-09-15 18:30 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> - 2016-09-15 18:50 +0200
                Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2016-09-15 21:10 +0200
              Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 14:40 +0200
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