[Libguestfs] [PATCH v4 0/3] v2v: Add -o rhv-upload output mode.

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 11:36:11 UTC 2018


On 03/14/2018 04:07 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:

> 
> What is the use case for flushing ranges? I guess we will have one
> or few flushes per images.
> 
> Looking at sync_file_range(2), it does not seem to be a safe way to
> flush:

Wow - I didn't know there was a syscall for flushing ranges.  Even if it 
is unusable for our purposes given the warnings in its documentation, 
and unneeded since neither qemu nor NBD flush by ranges.

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