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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for Sept 14
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:21:25 -0500
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On 09/15/2010 07:38 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> No, we don't really care if the L2 entry is on disk. If the guest want
> to have its data safe it needs to issue an explicit flush anyway. The
> only thing we want to achieve with bdrv_write_sync is to maintain the
> right order between metadata updates to survive a crash without corruption.
>    

Ah, yes, this is brand new :-)

I was looking at my QED branch which is a few weeks old.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>