Re: [Qemu-devel] [6388] Stop VM on ENOSPC error.

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:55:25AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Revision: 6388
>>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=6388
>> Author:   aliguori
>> Date:     2009-01-21 18:59:04 +0000 (Wed, 21 Jan 2009)
>>
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Stop VM on ENOSPC error. (Gleb Natapov)
>>
>> This version of the patch adds new option "werror" to -drive flag.
>> Possible values are:
>>
>> report    - report errors to a guest as IO errors
>> ignore    - continue as if nothing happened
>> stop      - stop VM on any error and retry last command on resume
>> enospc    - stop vm on ENOSPC error and retry last command on resume
>>             all other errors are reported to a guest.
>>
>> Default is "report" to maintain current behaviour.
>>   
>
> I recently got burnt by the default being "report".  I was doing an  
> installation and ran out of disk space.  The guest did not do anything  
> intelligible with the error reports and froze very hard (as you'd 
> expect).
>
> Any objection to changing to default to enospc?
>
Or even to stop. What guest can do with other errors anyway?

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                        Gleb.