Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
lzer" > À: "Alex Crow" > Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Envoyé: Samedi 12 Avril 2014 17:56:07 > Objet: Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live > migration safe ? > > > Hello, > >> On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:26:40 +0

Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
is working, I'm interested) - Mail original - De: "Alex Crow" À: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Envoyé: Samedi 12 Avril 2014 17:26:40 Objet: Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ? Hi. I've read in many places that you sh

Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
hanks for link reference ! - Mail original - De: "Christian Balzer" À: "Alex Crow" Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Envoyé: Samedi 12 Avril 2014 17:56:07 Objet: Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ? Hello,

Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Andrey Korolyov
Hello, AFAIK qemu calls bdrv_flush at the end of migration process so this is absolutely safe. Anyway it`s proven by our production systems very well too :) On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote: > Hello, > > I known that qemu live migration with disk with cache=writeback are

Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:26:40 +0100 Alex Crow wrote: > Hi. > > I've read in many places that you should never use writeback on any kind > of shared storage. Caching is better dealt with on the storage side > anyway as you have hopefully provided resilience there. In fact if your > SAN/

Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Alex Crow
Hi. I've read in many places that you should never use writeback on any kind of shared storage. Caching is better dealt with on the storage side anyway as you have hopefully provided resilience there. In fact if your SAN/NAS is good enough it's supposed to be best to use "none" as the caching

[ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
Hello, I known that qemu live migration with disk with cache=writeback are not safe with storage like nfs,iscsi... Is it also true with rbd ? If yes, it is possible to disable manually writeback online with qmp ? Best Regards, Alexandre ___ ceph-us