Freebsd 8 Release /usr Die After host VMWARE Crash
Andrew Snow
andrew at modulus.org
Thu Jul 8 07:59:52 UTC 2010
On 08/07/10 17:45, Simun Mikecin wrote:
> AFAIK virtual environments ignore disk sync requests by default. For example, in
> VirtualBox they are ignored by default, by you could enable it if you want (with
> a performance penalty). Haven't used VMWare, so not 100% sure about it, maybe
> someone more knowledgable with VMWare knows what it's defaults are.
VMware vSphere/ESX/ESXi makes all writes synchronous.
(It is terribly slow on RAID cards that lack battery-backed cache!)
- Andrew
More information about the freebsd-fs
mailing list