Our current deployment is KVM with Ceph RBD primary storage. We have rbd_cache enabled, and use "cache=none" in Qemu by default.
I've been running some tests to try to figure out why our write speeds with FreeBSD are significantly lower than Linux. I was testing both RBD and local SSD storage, with various cache configurations. Out of all of them the only one that performed close to our standard Linux images was local SSD, Qemu cache=writeback, FreeBSD gpt journal enabled. I've been reading on various lists the reasons and risks for cache=none vs cache=writeback: - cache=none: Safer for live migration - cache=writeback: Ceph RBD docs claim that this is required for data integrity when using rbd_cache >From what I can tell performance is generally the same with both, except in the case of FreeBSD. What is the current line of thinking on this? Should be using 'none' or 'writeback' with RBD by default? Is 'writeback' considered safe for live migration?
