Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-img: let 'qemu-img convert' flush data

[Liu Yuan]

On 04/13/2012 05:17 PM, Liu Yuan wrote:

> From: Liu Yuan <address@hidden>
> 
> The 'qemu-img convert -h' advertise that the default cache mode is
> 'writeback', while in fact it is 'unsafe'.
> 
> This patch 1) fix the help manual and 2) let bdrv_close() call bdrv_flush()
> 
> 2) is needed because some backend storage doesn't have a self-flush
> mechanism(for e.g., sheepdog), so we need to call bdrv_flush() to make
> sure the image is really writen to the storage instead of hanging around
> writeback cache forever.
> 


Hi Kevin,
   Just a ping. Seems that this patch is not merged into your block tree
yet.

Thanks,
Yuan