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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH resend] libxl, hotplug/Linux: default to phy backend for raw format file, take 2



Il 12/01/2015 10:31, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 10:15 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
In the meantime, I saw this:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2015-01/msg00047.html
Based on the post above seems that phy will have important risk of data
loss if I understand good, from Ian Campbell post:
xl also uses qdisk for raw disk images instead of loop+blkback which
xend used, because there are concerns that the loop driver can lead to
data loss (by not implementing direct i/o the underlying device, and/or
not handling flushes correct, my memory is a bit fuzzy).
Stefano already corrected me on this in this very thread.

Ian.


Thanks for your reply.
I saw other posts about and if I understand good when O_DIRECT patches will be in upstream loop driver the data loss risk will be solved, right?

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