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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] qemu-img: Add cache command line option
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:48:32 +0200
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Am 20.06.2011 18:48, schrieb Federico Simoncelli:
> qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling
> up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel preventing
> other processes from accessing the storage.
> This is particularly bad in cluster environments where time-based
> algorithms might be in place and accessing the storage within
> certain timeouts is critical.
> This patch adds the option to choose a cache method when writing
> disk images.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin