[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager PATCH] virt-install: document cache mode 'unsafe' and 'directsync'

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 14:58:24 UTC 2015


On 02/13/2015 03:52 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  man/virt-install.pod | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/virt-install.pod b/man/virt-install.pod
> index 772c9f5..f6e635e 100644
> --- a/man/virt-install.pod
> +++ b/man/virt-install.pod
> @@ -607,9 +607,12 @@ Path to a disk to use as the backing store for the newly created image.
>  =item B<cache>
>  
>  The cache mode to be used. The host pagecache provides cache memory.
> -The cache value can be 'none', 'writethrough', or 'writeback'.
> +The cache value can be 'none', 'writethrough', 'directsync', 'unsafe'
> +or 'writeback'.
>  'writethrough' provides read caching. 'writeback' provides
> -read and write caching.
> +read and write caching. 'directsync' bypasses the host page
> +cache. 'unsafe' may cache all content and ignore flush requests from
> +the guest.
>  
>  =item B<discard>
>  
> 

ACK

- Cole




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