Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] disk deadlines

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/09/2015 12:22, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Guests running without this patch series may suffer from the NFS "soft"
> mounts problem when they time out and give up on the I/O request just as
> it actually completes on the server, leaving the data in a different
> state than expected.
> 
> This patch series solves that problem by pausing the guest.  Action can
> be taken on the host to bring storage back and resume (similar to
> ENOSPC).

Serves me right for going too fast through the cover letter.  This
sounds like a great solution to the problem.

Paolo