On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/08/2010 11:48 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >>>> Are there any potential pitfalls? >>> >>> It won't work well unless running on a block device (partition or LVM). >> >> What does "work well" mean in this context? Potential dataloss? > > No, it becomes synchronous (=extra slow). But for this to happen, the user would have had to consciously enter into the situation by creating/using a non block device, non-pre-allocated backing disk AND specify the aio=native option, correct? :-Dustin -- 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
