On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:53:57PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 04.03.2015 um 23:48 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> > Since commit c25f53b06eba1575d5d0e92a0132455c97825b83 ("raw: Probe
> > required direct I/O alignment") QEMU has failed to launch if image files
> > produce I/O errors.
> >
> > Previously, QEMU would launch successfully and the guest would see the
> > errors when attempting I/O.
> >
> > This is a regression and may prevent multipath I/O inside the guest,
> > where QEMU must launch and let the guest figure out by itself which
> > disks are online.
> >
> > Tweak the alignment probing code in raw-posix.c to explicitly look for
> > EINVAL on Linux instead of bailing. The kernel refuses misaligned
> > requests with this error code and other error codes can be ignored.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
>
> This seems to conflict with the geometry series. Please rebase on the
> current block branch.
>
> Also, I would be surprised if this had been working by design. It's
> probably more by chance. If we want to make this a supported case, we
> need to add a qemu-iotests case, as this seems to be easy to break
> accidentally.Will send v2. Stefan
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