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Native Linux KVM tool v2

Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 15, 2011 22:46 UTC (Wed) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)
In reply to: Native Linux KVM tool v2 by aliguori
Parent article: Native Linux KVM tool v2

Nope, misread the code. It does do an fsync() on FLUSH so for guests that support barriers problem, it will work correctly.

So the behavior is equivalent to cache=writeback in QEMU.


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Native Linux KVM tool v2

Posted Jun 16, 2011 6:35 UTC (Thu) by penberg (subscriber, #30234) [Link]

Yup, we worked pretty hard to make sure we don't eat your QCOW2 images for lunch :-).

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