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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Using cache=writeback safely on qemu 1.4.0 and
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Il 27/08/2014 16:23, Andrew Martin ha scritto:
> Thanks for the info about this bug - I am using QEMU 1.4.0 (released on 02/15/13)
> and ef5bc96268 was added on 09/20/13, so the bug had not been fixed in the version
> of QEMU I am using. I have had trouble reproducing it on-demand - was there specific
> behavior you used to reproduce it, or just the lack of fsyncs or fdatasyncs when
> stracing the QEMU process when using cache=writeback?

Just the lack of fdatasyncs.

Paolo