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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:37:57 +0200
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On 09/25/2009 10:00 AM, RW wrote:
> I think ext3 with "data=writeback" in a KVM and KVM started
> with "if=virtio,cache=none" is a little bit crazy. I don't know
> if this is the case with current Ubuntu Alpha but it looks
> like so.
>    

It's not crazy, qemu bypasses the cache with cache=none so the ext3 
data= setting is immaterial.

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