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

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Nov 20 08:11:13 CET 2014


> > Sorry, but we use "cache=none", so cache is not enabled (what cache do you
> talk exactly?).
> Cache=none means no host cache but backend cache is still in use. In case of
> DRBD this is a buffer in DRBD. So O_DIRECT return OK when data reaches this
> buffer and not RAID cache.

Yes, so DRBD gets the data, and kvm send sync request when required. So I still not
see the problem.

Can you also reproduce the problems if you use DRBD device directly, without LVM on top?


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