Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/7 v2] Fix and workaround for qcow2 issues in qemu causing data corruption.
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:38:50PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 07/03/2012 07:03 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> (2) qemu's qcow2 disk cache code is buggy. If there are I/Os in
> flight when qemu shuts down, then qemu segfaults or assert fails.
> This can result in unwritten data.
It looks as if qemu-kvm 1.1.0 released a couple of days ago fixes the
crash. I looked through the commits but cannot see anything obvious.
Rich.
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