Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Flush pending AIO on reboot and shutdown.

[Samuel Thibault]

Gleb Natapov, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 16:23:58 +0300, a écrit :
> If there is outstanding IDE IO when BIOS starts execution then IDE
> commands sent by BIOS will interfere with it and will leave IDE
> subsystem in unpredictable state. This can happen when system reboots
> unexpectedly without waiting for IO completion. Flushing IO before exit
> prevents data lose.

I'm wondering: isn't that what happens with real machines?

Samuel