Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Disk integrity in QEMU

[Avi Kivity]

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <address@hidden>
>             Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:
> : >> Sounds like a bug.  Shouldn't Linux disable the write cache unless the 
> : >> user explicitly enables it, if NCQ is available?  NCQ should provide 
> : >> acceptable throughput even without the write cache.
> : >>     
> : >
> : > How can it be a bug? 
> : 
> : If it puts my data at risk, it's a bug.  I can understand it for IDE,
> : but not for SATA with NCQ.
>
> So wouldn't async mounts by default be a bug too?
>   

No.  Applications which are worried about data integrity use fsync() or 
backups to protect the user.

I'm not worried about losing a few minutes of openoffice.org work.  I'm 
worried about mail systems, filesystem metadata, etc. which can easily 
lose a large amount of data which is hard to recover.

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