Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/14] Add a virtlockd lock manager daemon

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The lock manager infrastructure we recently added to QEMU only has > two possible drivers at this time, 'nop' and 'sanlock'. The former > does absolutely nothing, while the latter requires a 3rd party > package installed and is a little heavy on disk I/O and storage > requirements. > > This series adds a new daemon 'virtlockd' which is intended to be > enabled by default on all hosts running 'libvirtd'. This daemon > provides a service for disk locking based on the traditional > fcntl() lock primitives. There is a new libvirt manager plugin > which talks to this daemon over RPC. The reason for doing the > locks in a separate process is that we want the locks to remain > active, even if libvirtd crashes, or is restarted. The virtlockd > daemon has this one single job so should be pretty reliable and > selfcontained. This patch series really benefits from the new RPC > APIs, requiring minimal code for the new daemon / client It seems this nice feature never got in. Are you plannign a respin?