Re: fsync in virtual machine

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 16.08.2012 16:57, Wietse Venema wrote: [] > * With KVM and QEMU, one would set "cache=none" to bypass the write > cache in the physical host and make fsync() work as expected in > a virtual machine. FWIW, with QEMU (kvm is just an "accelerator" for qemu, the device model/emulation is exactl

fsync in virtual machine

2012-08-16 Thread Wietse Venema
I updated the list of Postfix requirements, with the following note: * In a virtual machine when Postfix flushes a file with fsync(), the file information must not be cached in volatile hypervisor memory[1]. Instead the information must be written to disk (or to persistent cache) before fsyn