[pve-devel] Default cache mode for VM hard drives

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

>>I never observed problems with swap after server crash. 

Yes, never seen this. And indeed swapon initialize the swap at boot.


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De: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com> 
À: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier at odiso.com>, "Stanislav German-Evtushenko" <ginermail at gmail.com> 
Cc: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com 
Envoyé: Mercredi 19 Novembre 2014 07:16:45 
Objet: RE: [pve-devel] Default cache mode for VM hard drives 

> >>2. It is often happen to Linux VM swap space. 
> mmm,good point, I don't known how flush is working with swap. 

Swap space is inititialized on startup using 'swapon', and AFAIK there 
is no complex format which gets damaged if data is not synced? At least 
I never observed problems with swap after server crash.