Re: [Qemu-devel] Ensuring data is written to disk

2006-08-07 Thread R. Armiento
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Aug 01 2006, Jamie Lokier wrote: Should we change to only reiserfs and expect fsync() to commit data reliably only with that fs? I realise this is a lot of difficult questions, that apply to more than just Qemu... Yes, reiser is the only one that works reliably

Re: [Qemu-devel] Ensuring data is written to disk

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 8/7/06, R. Armiento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets assume this typical website setup: HARDWARE: commodity SATA/PATA; drive cache is not battery backed up. HOST OS: late Linux 2.6 kernel (e.g. 2.6.15), directly, on top of host, a recent version of database software (e.g. MySQL 5.1). Running in

Re: [Qemu-devel] Raw CD-ROM and hard disk for win32

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Hi, I find it strange that there is no win32 API to know the size of a CD-ROM. Maybe a CD-ROM specific IOCTL exists ? About the windows device patch detection, I would like a more precise test than len == 5. Testing if the filename begins with \\.\ would be better. Supporting also the

[Qemu-devel] qemu block.c

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Fabrice Bellard bellard 06/08/07 19:10:16 Modified files: . : block.c Log message: fixed aio emulation CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/block.c?cvsroot=qemur1=1.32r2=1.33

[Qemu-devel] Running Qemu ARM using NFS on Windows

2006-08-07 Thread Tieu Ma Dau
Hi all,I ran successfully Qemu to simulate ARM system on Linux host with the following command:./qemu-system-arm -kernel zImage.integratorCP -append "root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.7.1:/mnt/nfsqemu rw ip=192.168.7.2::192.168.7.1:255.255.255.0 " -net nic,vlan=0 -net

[Qemu-devel] qemu qemu-img.c

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Fabrice Bellard bellard 06/08/07 21:33:22 Modified files: . : qemu-img.c Log message: copyright update CVSWeb URLs:

[Qemu-devel] qemu qemu-img.texi

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Fabrice Bellard bellard 06/08/07 21:33:55 Modified files: . : qemu-img.texi Log message: update CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/qemu-img.texi?cvsroot=qemur1=1.2r2=1.3

[Qemu-devel] qemu vl.c

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Fabrice Bellard bellard 06/08/07 21:34:46 Modified files: . : vl.c Log message: copyright update CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/vl.c?cvsroot=qemur1=1.206r2=1.207

[Qemu-devel] qemu/audio wavcapture.c

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Fabrice Bellard bellard 06/08/07 21:35:12 Modified files: audio : wavcapture.c Log message: mem leak fixes CVSWeb URLs:

[Qemu-devel] qemu/hw ide.c

2006-08-07 Thread Fabrice Bellard
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Fabrice Bellard bellard 06/08/07 21:36:34 Modified files: hw : ide.c Log message: use AIO for DMA transfers - enabled DMA for CDROMs CVSWeb URLs:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Ensuring data is written to disk

2006-08-07 Thread R. Armiento
Thomas Steffen wrote: On 8/7/06, R. Armiento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And some IDE disks do not let you switch off write-caching. So as far as I know, you need SCSI for transactional guarantees. I don't think the fact that there are some buggy drives/firmwares out there should be taken to