From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, hch@lst.de, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add cache=volatile parameter to -drive
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:01:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFC1E99.8010002@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFC1B92.6040909@codemonkey.ws>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 12:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> I see it as the equivalent to the Taint bit in Linux. I want to make
>>> it clear to users up front that if you use this option, and you have
>>> data loss issues, don't complain.
>>>
>>> Just putting something in qemu-doc.texi is not enough IMHO. Few
>>> people actually read it.
>>>
>> So what exactly is the conclusion here? I really want to see this
>> getting merged.
>>
>
> Make it more scary and try again.
I don't see how to make it more scary while still considering users sane
human beings. You don't print out a big fat warning on -drive if=scsi
either, right?
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-17 10:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add cache=volatile parameter to -drive Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 10:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-05-17 12:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 13:02 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 13:17 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 13:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 14:04 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 14:22 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 15:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 16:23 ` Paul Brook
2010-05-17 16:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-17 16:28 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17 20:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-05-18 7:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-05-25 17:59 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-25 18:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-25 19:01 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2010-05-26 13:09 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-25 21:01 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-05-26 1:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 8:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-05-26 13:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 14:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-05-26 14:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 14:26 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-05-26 14:13 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-05-26 8:52 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-05-26 9:16 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-05-26 13:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 14:12 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-05-26 14:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 15:40 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-05-26 16:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-26 13:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-26 13:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-26 15:13 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-17 15:11 ` Anthony Liguori
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