Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 5/6] raw-posix: Add full preallocation option

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:23:21PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> The definition of "besteffort" depends on what you want to achieve. It
> is policy, and we generally try to keep policy out of qemu.

I think qemu *should* have a policy of make it work and don't fail - first -
and then offer a million knobs to optimize and customize things on top
of that.

But whatever ... what's one more thing that we have to provide fragile
workarounds for ...

Rich.

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