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From: Neobiker <neo-ml-efw-1106@neobiker.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Which disk backend to use in domU?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:06:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28857720.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1025C0.2070808@goop.org>


Hello Jeremy,


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Using phy: in your config file?  That really isn't recommended because it
> has poor integrity; the writes are buffered in dom0 so writes can be
> reordered or lost on crash, and the guest filesystem can't maintain any
> of its own integrity guarantees.
> 
> tap:aio: is more resilient, since the writes go directly to the device
> without buffering.

Do you mean that using tap:aio with a disk.image is prefered against using
phy: with LVM-device?

Best Regards
Jens Friedrich aka Neobiker (www.neobiker.de)
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-11 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 21:02 Xen pv_ops dom0 2.6.32.13 issues greno
2010-06-09 22:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-09 23:27 ` greno
2010-06-09 23:37   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-11 17:06     ` Neobiker [this message]
2010-06-11 17:42       ` Which disk backend to use in domU? Valtteri Kiviniemi
2010-06-11 17:53         ` Valtteri Kiviniemi
2010-06-11 18:11           ` Neobiker
2010-06-14 10:49             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-14 10:57               ` Daniel Stodden
2010-06-14 11:01               ` Pasi Kärkkäinen

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