Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv4] qemu-img: Add cache command line option

2011-06-29 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 20.06.2011 18:48, schrieb Federico Simoncelli: qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel preventing other processes from accessing the storage. This is particularly bad in cluster environments where time-based

[Qemu-devel] [PATCHv4] qemu-img: Add cache command line option

2011-06-20 Thread Federico Simoncelli
qemu-img currently writes disk images using writeback and filling up the cache buffers which are then flushed by the kernel preventing other processes from accessing the storage. This is particularly bad in cluster environments where time-based algorithms might be in place and accessing the