Way to force sync disk with cache=unsafe

2023-11-12 Thread YunQiang Su
I have a VM for source code building and running unittest. The data in it is not critical generally. So I use "cache=unsafe" for it. But I find that sometimes, I wish that I can force the data sync, for example when a big project is finished to build. A method I am using is to shutdown the VM and

Re: Way to force sync disk with cache=unsafe

2023-11-12 Thread Narcis Garcia
I think that "cache=unsafe" option it only allows writing data to be included in host's disk cache behaviour. Assuming this, if I'm not wrong, when you flush host's disk cache you are already syncing the pending writings from Qemu. To flush at VM hosting level to disk: $ sync Remember that a V