--On 20 March 2013 12:08:19 +0100 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
To make it safe, just use cache=none. There are downsides (for example tmpfs does not support it), but perhaps you can use a global option or environment variable to toggle the behavior.
If you don't use cache=none, you it is unsafe because of the page cache issue. If you use cache=none, it uses O_DIRECT, and it is unsafe because of the kernel issue. My preference would be to leave this can of worms to the end user. I'd rather take the risk on the first (as I'd rather domU broke than dom0) but that's because I always use network drives. Some documentation would be useful. -- Alex Bligh
