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    snapshot: add atomic create flag · 4d5533ca
    Eric Blake 提交于
    Right now, it is appallingly easy to cause qemu disk snapshots
    to alter a domain then fail; for example, by requesting a two-disk
    snapshot where the second disk name resides on read-only storage.
    In this failure scenario, libvirt reports failure, but modifies
    the live domain XML in-place to record that the first disk snapshot
    was taken; and places a difficult burden on the management app
    to grab the XML and reparse it to see which disks, if any, were
    altered by the partial snapshot.
    
    This patch adds a new flag where implementations can request that
    the hypervisor make snapshots atomically; either no changes to
    XML occur, or all disks were altered as a group.  If you request
    the flag, you either get outright failure up front, or you take
    advantage of hypervisor abilities to make an atomic snapshot. Of
    course, drivers should prefer the atomic means even without the
    flag explicitly requested.
    
    There's no way to make snapshots 100% bulletproof - even if the
    hypervisor does it perfectly atomic, we could run out of memory
    during the followup tasks of updating our in-memory XML, and report
    a failure.  However, these sorts of catastrophic failures are rare
    and unlikely, and it is still nicer to know that either all
    snapshots happened or none of them, as that is an easier state to
    recover from.
    
    * include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
    (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_ATOMIC): New flag.
    * src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Document it.
    * tools/virsh.c (cmdSnapshotCreate, cmdSnapshotCreateAs): Expose it.
    * tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-create, snapshot-create-as): Document
    it.
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