Freebsd 8 Release /usr Die After host VMWARE Crash

[Simun Mikecin]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org>
> To: Simun Mikecin <numisemis at yahoo.com>; freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
> Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 9:59:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Freebsd 8 Release /usr Die After host VMWARE Crash
> 
> 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!)


Thanx for the info.
But, there is still a chance that the host environment on which (original 
poster's) VMware is running uses a lying ATA drive or some other storage that 
behaves the same as a lying ATA drive.