Re: [libvirt] Reopening file descriptors

On 02/24/2015 08:05 PM, Christopher Pereira wrote: That's not a libvirt bug, but a management bug. You can't just stop a filesystem while some process has an open file handle (in this case, the process is qemu, not libvirt), and still expect the handle to come back to life when the filesystem is present again, unless the filesystem is something like NFS that has super-long timeouts built into it to survive temporary outages while still keeping the same handle alive. Yeah, because you yanked the file out of under qemu's feet, and gluster apparently doesn't have the ability to revive the handle when the connection comes back online. Libvirt can't know that you need to reopen the file. If there are any patches to be made, they need to be in gluster (to revive an existing handle rather than requiring clients to reopen) or in qemu (to attempt reopening a handle when gluster reports no connection), not in libvirt. At least, that's true as long as libvirt still hasn't implemented fd-passing as the way to hand files to qemu (right now, it is qemu that opens the gluster handle, not libvirt). It's not libvirt's fault. Don't yank a gluster volume when clients are still using it. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org