Re: [Qemu-devel] 'qemu-nbd' explicite flush to disk

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Trumpold
Paolo, Please recall you had sent me the link below to a kernel patch to allow 'qemu-nbd' to flush to disk. The patch was applied with good success. However, recent testing indicates that filesystem corruption issue I am seeing seems to be tied to large (>500mbyte) filesystem writes. I also obs

Re: [Qemu-devel] 'qemu-nbd' explicite flush to disk

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Trumpold
Paolo, Awesome!!! I just tried your patch, and it works beautifully. I've been struggling with the lack of '--cache=writeback' for months now with many work-arounds/kludges. Thank you again for responding. Qemu rocks! Best regards, Mark Trumpold > -Original Message- > From: Paolo Bon

Re: [Qemu-devel] 'qemu-nbd' explicite flush to disk

2012-09-12 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 12/09/2012 23:28, Mark Trumpold ha scritto: > So, I've been experimenting with 'qemu-nbd --cache=writeback ..' > This nicely eliminates the 'checkpoint' issue; however, I have as > yet been unable to explicitely flush things to disk -- which I would like to > do just before a 'nilfs' snapshot.

[Qemu-devel] 'qemu-nbd' explicite flush to disk

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Trumpold
Hello, I posted a similar message to 'qemu-discuss', and was thinking my question may require a developer level of expertise. I will try to be as brief as possible. My context is using 'qemu-nbd' and 'qemu-img' to manage 'qcow2' loop filesystem images being hosted on a 'nilfs' filesystem. Thi