Re: linux-aio usable?

Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-08T14:25:29Z

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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).

But for this to happen, the user would have had to consciously enter
into the situation by creating/using a non block device,
non-pre-allocated backing disk AND specify the aio=native option,
correct?

:-Dustin