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/NAS is good enough it's supposed to be best to use "none" as the 
> caching algo.
> 
> If you need caching on the hypervisor side it would probably better to 
> use something like bcache/dmcache etc.
>
And I read:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ceph-users@lists.ceph.com/msg06890.html

Niw don't get me wrong, erring on the side of safety is quite sensible,
but the impact of having no caching by qemu is in the order of a 2
magnitudes easily.

Beers,

Christian

> Cheers
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On 12/04/14 16:01, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> > 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
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