https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16165 When a (raw) guest image is placed on an ext4 filesystem, it is possible to get data corruption, now due to ext4 bug, not kvm bug. Also, ext4 is _very_ slow on O_SYNC writes (which is used in kvm with default cache). JFYI. /mjt -- 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