Libvirt, quemu, ceph write cache settings

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Hi,
I wondering how safe it is to use rbd cache = truewith libvirt/qemu. I did read the documentation and it says "When the OS sends a barrier or a flush request, all dirty data is written to the OSDs. This means that using write-back caching is just as safe as using a well-behaved physical hard disk with a VM that properly sends flushes"

but what does it really means.. "just as safe as physical hard drives" I don't know how safe are physical hard drives.. Is it safe to enable that setting on a prod environment ? If I don't enable that cache I'm just getting really poor write performance on the VMs.

What are the implications of enabling the caching when using libvirt/qemu/kvm ?


Thanks



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