Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qga: improve fsfreeze documentations

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Marc-André Lureau (2017-04-03 04:54:38)
> Some users find the fsfreeze behaviour confusing. Add some notes about
> invalid mount points and Windows usage.
> 
> Related to:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436976
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to qga tree:

  https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/qga

> ---
>  qga/qapi-schema.json | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qga/qapi-schema.json b/qga/qapi-schema.json
> index a02dbf2d18..8d901f556a 100644
> --- a/qga/qapi-schema.json
> +++ b/qga/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -426,7 +426,13 @@
>  ##
>  # @guest-fsfreeze-freeze:
>  #
> -# Sync and freeze all freezable, local guest filesystems
> +# Sync and freeze all freezable, local guest filesystems. If this
> +# command succeeded, you may call @guest-fsfreeze-thaw later to
> +# unfreeze.
> +#
> +# Note: On Windows, the command is implemented with the help of a
> +# Volume Shadow-copy Service DLL helper. The frozen state is limited
> +# for up to 10 seconds by VSS.
>  #
>  # Returns: Number of file systems currently frozen. On error, all filesystems
>  # will be thawed.
> @@ -439,10 +445,12 @@
>  ##
>  # @guest-fsfreeze-freeze-list:
>  #
> -# Sync and freeze specified guest filesystems
> +# Sync and freeze specified guest filesystems.
> +# See also @guest-fsfreeze-freeze.
>  #
>  # @mountpoints: an array of mountpoints of filesystems to be frozen.
>  #               If omitted, every mounted filesystem is frozen.
> +#               Invalid mount points are ignored.
>  #
>  # Returns: Number of file systems currently frozen. On error, all filesystems
>  # will be thawed.
> -- 
> 2.12.0.191.gc5d8de91d
>