On 22.03.2017 22:00, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Success for bdrv_flush() means that all previously written data is safe
> on disk. For fdatasync(), the best semantics we can hope for on Linux
> (without O_DIRECT) is that all data that was written since the last call
> was successfully written back. Therefore, and because we can't redo all
> writes after a flush failure, we have to give up after a single
> fdatasync() failure. After this failure, we would never be able to make
> the promise that a successful bdrv_flush() makes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/file-posix.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

Thanks, applied to my block branch for 2.9:

https://github.com/XanClic/qemu/commits/block

Max

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