[pve-devel] [PATCH 2/6] qemu_drive_mirror : handle multiple jobs

[Wolfgang Bumiller]

> On December 24, 2016 at 10:12 AM Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com> wrote:
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> Just has done small test with a socat tunnel
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> socat UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/foo.sock,reuseaddr,fork  TCP:8.8.8.8:1234
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> drive_mirror -n drive-scsi0 nbd:unix:/tmp/foo.sock:test
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> then it's hanging like before, because no reponse. (we can make a small timeout to qmp response wait)
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> then,we can kill socat, which is dropping the unix socket, and drive-mirror abort and freeing qmp commands.

A nasty trick, but I suppose it gets the job done for now (until someone
sends a patch upstream). Btw. before you go around killing socats: it has
a `connect-timeout` option (which is almost surprising).