Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Introduce virDomainFSFreeze() and virDomainFSThaw() public API

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On 4/4/14 8:15 , "Eric Blake" <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 04/04/2014 02:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:39:29AM -0400, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
>>> These will freeze and thaw filesystems within guest. The APIs take
>>>@disks
>>> and @ndisks parameters to specify disks to be frozen or thawed.
>>> The parameters can be NULL and 0, then the all mounted filesystes are
>>> frozen or thawed. If some disks are frozen multiple times, they are not
>>> thawed until requested to be thawed as many times as freeze request.
>>> @flags parameter, which are currently not used, is for future
>>>extensions.
>>>
>
>>> +int virDomainFSThaw(virDomainPtr dom,
>>> +                    const char **disks,
>>> +                    unsigned int ndisks,
>>> +                    unsigned int flags);
>> 
>> Are all guests OS required to support unfreeze on a per disk
>> basis. I vaguely recall someone mentioning that some OS can
>> do all-or-none only.
>
>If that's the case, the command can issue an error if disks is non-NULL
>but the guest agent required an all-or-none operation.

Right, Disks should be non-NULL or the same as those passed on FSFreeze
on the OS, otherwise it will cause an error.

Thanks,
-- 
Tomoki Sekiyama


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