Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2] iohelper: fsync() at the end

Currently, when we are doing (managed) save, we insert the iohelper between the qemu and OS. The pipe is created, the writing end is passed to qemu and the reading end to the iohelper. It reads data and write them into given file. However, with write() being asynchronous data may still be in OS caches and hence in some (corner) cases, all migration data may have been read and written (not physically though). So qemu will report success, as well as iohelper. However, with some non local filesystems, where ENOSPACE is polled every X time units, we may get into situation where all operations succeeded but data hasn't reached the disk. And in fact will never do. Therefore we ought sync caches to make sure data has reached the block device on remote host. ---

+ /* If we are on shared FS ensure all data is written as some + * FSs may do writeback caching or polling for ENOSPC or any + * other magic that local FS does not.*/ + if (virStorageFileIsSharedFS(fdoutname) && (fdatasync(fdout) < 0)) { + virReportSystemError(errno, _("unable to fsync %s"), fdoutname); + goto cleanup; + }