From: Liu Yuan <tailai...@taobao.com> The 'qemu-img convert -h' advertise that the default cache mode is 'writeback', while in fact it is 'unsafe'.
This patch 1) fix the help manual and 2) let bdrv_close() call bdrv_flush() 3) explicitly calls bdrv_close() to flush the dirty bits. 3) is needed because some backend storage doesn't have a self-flush mechanism(for e.g., sheepdog), so we need to call bdrv_close() to make sure the image is really writen to the storage instead of hanging around writeback cache forever. Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai...@taobao.com> --- block.c | 1 + qemu-img.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block.c b/block.c index c0c90f0..1ee2bf0 100644 --- a/block.c +++ b/block.c @@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ unlink_and_fail: void bdrv_close(BlockDriverState *bs) { + bdrv_flush(bs); if (bs->drv) { if (bs->job) { block_job_cancel_sync(bs->job); diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c index 6a61ca8..846f707 100644 --- a/qemu-img.c +++ b/qemu-img.c @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ static void help(void) " 'filename' is a disk image filename\n" " 'fmt' is the disk image format. It is guessed automatically in most cases\n" " 'cache' is the cache mode used to write the output disk image, the valid\n" - " options are: 'none', 'writeback' (default), 'writethrough', 'directsync'\n" - " and 'unsafe'\n" + " options are: 'none', 'writeback', 'writethrough', 'directsync'\n" + " and 'unsafe' (default)\n" " 'size' is the disk image size in bytes. Optional suffixes\n" " 'k' or 'K' (kilobyte, 1024), 'M' (megabyte, 1024k), 'G' (gigabyte, 1024M)\n" " and T (terabyte, 1024G) are supported. 'b' is ignored.\n" @@ -1036,6 +1036,9 @@ out: free_option_parameters(param); qemu_vfree(buf); if (out_bs) { + if (ret == 0) { + bdrv_close(out_bs); + } bdrv_delete(out_bs); } if (bs) { -- 1.7.8.2