Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files

2016-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Roger Pau Monné writes ("Re: [PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files"): > This check is done inside of a switch branch that's only used by > LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_PHY, so it doesn't assume that every backend can handle > empty files. ... > I can move the check to a lower place (aft

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files

2016-03-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: > Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty > files"): > > This was introduced by 97ee1f (~5 years ago), but was probably never > > surfaced because most people used regular files as CDROM images, so the PHY > > backend was a

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files

2016-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files"): > This was introduced by 97ee1f (~5 years ago), but was probably never > surfaced because most people used regular files as CDROM images, so the PHY > backend was actually never selected. A year ago this was chang

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files

2016-03-01 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 19/2/16 a les 19:01, Roger Pau Monne ha escrit: > This was introduced by 97ee1f (~5 years ago), but was probably never > surfaced because most people used regular files as CDROM images, so the PHY > backend was actually never selected. A year ago this was changed, and now > regular RAW files are

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v7] libxl: allow 'phy' backend to use empty files

2016-02-19 Thread Roger Pau Monne
This was introduced by 97ee1f (~5 years ago), but was probably never surfaced because most people used regular files as CDROM images, so the PHY backend was actually never selected. A year ago this was changed, and now regular RAW files are also handled by the PHY backend, which has made this bug s