Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 2/3] quorum: implement bdrv_add_child() and bdrv_del_child()

[Wen Congyang]

On 01/23/2016 04:02 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Alberto Garcia (address@hidden) wrote:
>> On Thu 21 Jan 2016 05:58:42 PM CET, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> In general, what do you do to make sure that the data in a new Quorum
>>>>>> child is consistent with that of the rest of the array?
>>>>>
>>>>> Quorum can have more than one child when it starts. But we don't do
>>>>> the similar check. So I don't think we should do such check here.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but when you start a VM you can verify in advance that all
>>>> members of the Quorum have the same data. If you do that on a running
>>>> VM how can you know if the new disk is consistent with the others?
>>>
>>> User error if it is not.  Just the same as it is user error if you
>>> request a shallow drive-mirror but the destination is not the same
>>> contents as the backing file.  I don't think qemu has to protect us
>>> from user error in this case.
>>
>> But the backing file is read-only so the user can guarantee that the
>> destination has the same data before the shallow mirror. How do you do
>> that in this case?
> 
> I think in the colo case they're relying on doing a block migrate
> to synchronise the remote disk prior to switching into colo mode.

Yes, we can do a block migration to sync the disk. After the migration finished,
we stop block migration before starting colo.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

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> Dave
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>> Berto
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