From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add cache=volatile parameter to -drive
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:31:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFC79E8.1070700@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100525210113.GE1402@hall.aurel32.net>
On 05/25/2010 04:01 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> I really think this patch can be useful, in my own case when testing
> debian-installer (I already cache=writeback). In short all that is about
> developing and testing, as opposed to run a VM in production, can
> benefit about that. This was one of the original use case of QEMU before
> KVM arrived.
>
> Unless someone can convince me not to do it, I seriously considering
> applying this patch.
>
There really needs to be an indication in the --help output of what the
ramifications of this option are, in the very least. It should also be
removable via a ./configure option because no sane distribution should
enable this for end users.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-26 3:04 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
2010-05-26 13:09 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-25 21:01 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-05-26 1:31 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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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