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

[M. Warner Losh]

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?

Warner