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Re: [Xen-users] Consistent VM image backups

To: Mike Sun <msun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Consistent VM image backups
From: Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:23:29 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Mike Sun <msun@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Does the use of the blktap
> driver eliminate this problem?

no, since it's not a virtualization isse: the guest's OS might have a
lot of uncommitted data, no setup of Xen can divine what should be on
disk before the guest chooses to flush it.

-- 
Javier

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