Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tools/xenstore: start with empty data base

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:13:38PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Today xenstored tries to open a tdb data base file on disk when it is
> started. As this is problematic in most cases the scripts used to start
> xenstored ensure xenstored won't find such a file in order to start
> with an empty xenstore.
> 
> A tdb data base file can't be used to restore all Xenstore state as
> e.g. Xenstore watches are not kept in the tdb data base. The file is
> meant to be used for debugging purposes after a xenstored crash only.
> 
> Instead of opening a Xenstore data base file found on disk always start
> with an empty data base. This will avoid problems in case someone is
> testing multiple xenstored versions without rebooting (which is not
> supported but helps debugging in some cases).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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