From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jim Paris
>>
>> - add file:// migration protocol (Uri Lublin)
>>
>>commit 70d2a9dc3594446f3ad66b32abc94c08b74118d4
>>Author: Uri Lublin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date:   Thu Feb 21 15:00:50 2008 +0200
>>
>>    kvm: qemu: migration: added file:// migration protocol
>>    
>>    Instead of writing into a file with fork+exec, just open the file and
>>    write the data. This solves a bug that sometimes not all the data was
>>    kept in the state-file.
>>
>I haven't tested it yet, but this sounds like the problems I've always
>had with migration.  It seems this is just a new way to work around
>it, rather than an actual fix for the bug though -- won't exec: still
>have the same problem even when not writing to a file?  Was this
>ever tracked down any further?  Or is there a known reason why 
>"exec:dd" is expected to be broken?  I never had any luck finding it..
>
>-jim

Opening a file, and writing into it is simpler anyway.
I too do not know yet why "exec:dd" sometimes fails.


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