[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] blockdev: flip default cache mode from writethrough to writeback

2012-08-10 Thread Kevin Wolf
From: Paolo Bonzini Now all major device models (IDE, SCSI, virtio) can choose between writethrough and writeback at run-time, and virtio will even revert to writethrough if the guest is not capable of sending flushes. So we can change the default to writeback at last. Tested, for lack of a bet

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] blockdev: flip default cache mode from writethrough to writeback

2013-03-27 Thread Artyom Tarasenko
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > From: Paolo Bonzini > > Now all major device models (IDE, SCSI, virtio) can choose between > writethrough and writeback at run-time, and virtio will even revert > to writethrough if the guest is not capable of sending flushes. So > we can chan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] blockdev: flip default cache mode from writethrough to writeback

2013-03-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 27/03/2013 16:16, Artyom Tarasenko ha scritto: > This patch breaks shutting down of a sparc32 guest (or at least the > Debian-4 image I have): > > $ sparc-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -nographic -hda ../disk-debian-4 > [...] > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 debian ttyS0 > > debian login: root > Pa