[one-users] Setting the "SHAREABLE" attribute

[Gareth Bult]

Mmm, there has been some discussion around this ..

Technically using cache=writeback "should" be safe for migration.
(which is the method I use)

So .. I need "cache=writeback" and "sharable" for migration to happen.
(the performance hit with cache=off is an unacceptable performance hit, at least for me ..)

>From the QEMU lists, 2012;
"In short, if you're using a recent kernel with ext3 or ext4, cache=writeback is absolutely safe. If you're using an older version of ext3, cache=writeback is still safe but ext3 itself isn't. cache=writeback can make the situation worse."

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Kooman" <stefan at bit.nl>
To: "Javier Fontan" <jfontan at opennebula.org>
Cc: "Gareth Bult" <gareth at linux.co.uk>, users at lists.opennebula.org
Sent: Thursday, 30 January, 2014 2:38:23 PM
Subject: Re: [one-users] Setting the "SHAREABLE" attribute

Quoting Javier Fontan (jfontan at opennebula.org):
> I've been digging a bit more in the shareable issue and it seems that
> setting "shareable" to a disk just disables cache in qemu/kvm[1]:
> 
> --8<------
> 4158         virBufferAsprintf(&opt, ",cache=%s", mode);
> 4159     } else if (disk->shared && !disk->readonly) {
> 4160         virBufferAddLit(&opt, ",cache=off");
> 4161     }
> ------>8--
> 
> Isn't it enough to disable cache for disks that can be migrated?
Yes it is, at least in our environment (Ubuntu 13.10). Cache has to be
off (to avoid data loss while migrating vm).

/etc/one/vmm_exec/vmm_exec_kvm.conf:

DISK     = [ driver = "raw" , cache = "none", io = "native"]

Gr. Stefan
 

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