From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Cc: "Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
"Dario Faggioli" <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>,
"Ian Jackson" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] libxl, hotplug/Linux: default to phy backend for raw format file, take 2
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:31:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421055106.26317.0.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B3909D.1040102@m2r.biz>
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 10:15 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> In the meantime, I saw this:
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2015-01/msg00047.html
> Based on the post above seems that phy will have important risk of data
> loss if I understand good, from Ian Campbell post:
> > xl also uses qdisk for raw disk images instead of loop+blkback which
> > xend used, because there are concerns that the loop driver can lead to
> > data loss (by not implementing direct i/o the underlying device, and/or
> > not handling flushes correct, my memory is a bit fuzzy).
Stefano already corrected me on this in this very thread.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-08 13:46 [PATCH resend] libxl, hotplug/Linux: default to phy backend for raw format file, take 2 Wei Liu
2015-01-08 14:08 ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-08 14:33 ` Fabio Fantoni
2015-01-09 14:42 ` Wei Liu
2015-01-09 17:38 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-01-12 9:15 ` Fabio Fantoni
2015-01-12 9:31 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-01-12 9:39 ` Fabio Fantoni
2015-01-12 10:06 ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-12 10:17 ` Fabio Fantoni
2015-01-12 10:18 ` Ian Campbell
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