Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][v2] Align file accesses with cache=off (O_DIRECT)

[Jamie Lokier]

Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> >I don't think it's that important to try and guess the right alignment 
> >size, 512 is probably usually sufficient, but spreading alignment 
> >requirements of 512 throughout QEMU code is a bad idea because this is 
> >something that's very hardware/OS specific.
> 
> So better introduce a #define in block.h?
> 
> >For people that care about data integrity, we should be using O_SYNC, 
> >not O_DIRECT anyway.
> 
> Should we implement an option for O_SYNC then? (not in this patch, of 
> course)

Why would O_SYNC be better than O_DIRECT?

-- Jamie