On 04/08/2010 06:26 PM, Chris Mason wrote:

Once the O_DIRECT read patch is in, you can switch to that, or tell qemu
to use a writeback cache instead.
Even with writeback qemu will issue a lot of fsyncs.
Oh, I didn't see that when I was testing, when does it fsync?

When it updates qcow2 metadata or when the guest issues a barrier. It's relatively new. I have a patch that introduces cache=volatile somewhere.

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