Re: cache write back & barriers

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:03:10AM +0200, folkert wrote:
> In virt-manager I saw that there's the option for cache writeback for
> storage devices.
> I'm wondering: does this also make kvm to ignore write barriers invoked
> by the virtual machine?

No, that would be unsafe.  When the guest issues a flush then QEMU will
ensure that data reaches the disk with -drive cache=writeback.

Stefan
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