Il 28-12-2019 14:36 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
Il 28-12-2019 01:39 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
Hi list,
I would like to ask a clarification about how locking works. My test
system is CentOS 7.7 with libvirt-4.5.0-23.el7_7.1.x86_64
Is was understanding that, by default, libvirt does not use any locks.
From here [1]: "The out of the box configuration, however, currently
uses the nop lock manager plugin". As "lock_manager" is commented in
my qemu.conf file, I was expecting that no locks were used to protect
my virtual disk from guest double-start or misassignement to other
vms.
However, "cat /proc/locks" shows the following (17532905 being the
vdisk inode):
[root@localhost tmp]# cat /proc/locks | grep 17532905
42: OFDLCK ADVISORY READ -1 fd:00:17532905 201 201
43: OFDLCK ADVISORY READ -1 fd:00:17532905 100 101
Indeed, try to associate and booting the disk to another machines give
me an error (stating that the disk is alredy in use).
Enabling the "lockd" plugin and starting the same machine, "cat
/proc/locks" looks different:
[root@localhost tmp]# cat /proc/locks | grep 17532905
31: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 19266 fd:00:17532905 0 0
32: OFDLCK ADVISORY READ -1 fd:00:17532905 201 201
33: OFDLCK ADVISORY READ -1 fd:00:17532905 100 101
As you can see, an *additional* write lock was granted. Again,
assigning the disk to another vms and booting it up ends with the same
error.
So, may I ask:
- why does libvirtd requests READ locks even commenting the
"lock_manager" option?
- does it means that I can avoid modifying anything, relying on
libvirtd to correctly locks image files?
- if so, I should use virtlockd for what use cases?
Thanks.
[1] https://libvirt.org/locking-lockd.html
Ok, maybe I found some answers: from what I read here [1] and here
[2], Qemu started to automatically lock disk image files to prevent
corruption from processes outside libvirt scope (ie: manually issues
"qemu-img" commands).
Do you suggest relying on Qemu own locks or using virtlockd (in
addition to Qemu locks)? Whatever the answer is, can you explain why?
Thanks.
[1]
https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/2.12/qemu-doc.html#disk_005fimage_005flocking
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378241
Hi all,
any suggestion on the matter?
Thanks.
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