Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Disable QEMU drive caching
Chris Wright wrote:
* Anthony Liguori (anthony(a)codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>
>> This is the bit I really don't buy - we're equating qemu caching to IDE
>> write-back caching and saying the risk of corruption is the same in both
>> cases.
>>
> Yes.
>
I'm with Mark here.
I've been persuaded. Relying on the host's integrity for guest data
integrity is not a good idea by default. I don't think we should use
cache=off to address this though. I've sent a patch and started a
thread on qemu-devel. Let's continue the conversation there.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori