Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:32:07 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] nbd: support FLUSH requests |
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:06:09 +0100 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 12/02/2013 18:37, Alex Bligh ha scritto: > > For my education, why remove the FUA stuff? > > Because I had no way to test it. > > >>> > > Hmmm... the underlying storage could be md/dm RAIDs in which case FUA > >>> > > should be cheaper than FLUSH. > >> > > >> > If someone ever wrote a virtio-blk backend that sits directly ontop > >> > of the Linux block layer that would be true. > > In this case we don't know what the backend is sitting on top of > > a-priori. It might be the current nbd server code, but it might > > not be. > > Do you know of any other NBD server than the "official" one and qemu-nbd? >
Obviously the changelog was inadequate. Please send along a new one which fully describes the reasons for this change.
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