On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:29:06PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >It don't think we realistically can. > > Maybe two fds? One open in O_SYNC and one not. Is such a thing sane? O_SYNC and O_DIRECT currently behave exactly in the same way. In none of the filesystem I've looked at there is an explicit cache flush, but all send down a barrier which gives you an implicit cache flush with the way barriers are implemented. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html