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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-aio usable?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:48:54 +0200
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On 03/08/2010 11:48 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>    
>>> Are there any potential pitfalls?
>>>        
>> It won't work well unless running on a block device (partition or LVM).
>>      
> What does "work well" mean in this context? Potential dataloss?
>
>    

No, it becomes synchronous (=extra slow).

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