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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz, kopi@linuxbox.cz,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Notes on block I/O data integrity
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:55:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090826185542.GE25726@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825202508.GB4807@nik-comp.linuxbox.cz>

Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> clustered LVM SHOULD not have problems with it, as we're using just
> striped volumes,

Note that LVM does not implement barriers at all, except for simple
cases of a single backing device (I'm not sure if that includes
dm-crypt).

So your striped volumes may not offer this level of integrity.

-- Jamie

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
Cc: kopi@linuxbox.cz, kvm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Notes on block I/O data integrity
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:55:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090826185542.GE25726@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825202508.GB4807@nik-comp.linuxbox.cz>

Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> clustered LVM SHOULD not have problems with it, as we're using just
> striped volumes,

Note that LVM does not implement barriers at all, except for simple
cases of a single backing device (I'm not sure if that includes
dm-crypt).

So your striped volumes may not offer this level of integrity.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25 18:11 Notes on block I/O data integrity Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-25 18:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-25 19:33 ` Javier Guerra
2009-08-25 19:33   ` [Qemu-devel] " Javier Guerra
2009-08-25 19:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-25 19:36     ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-26 18:57     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-26 18:57       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-26 22:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-26 22:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27  9:00         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-25 20:25 ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-08-25 20:25   ` [Qemu-devel] " Nikola Ciprich
2009-08-26 18:55   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-08-26 18:55     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-27  0:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27  0:15     ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27 10:51 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-27 10:51   ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-08-27 13:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27 13:42     ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-28  2:03     ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-28  2:03       ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-08-27 14:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-08-27 14:09   ` Jamie Lokier

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