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- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:35:53 -0400
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On 9/28/2015 8:24 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > something. The guest storage device is a precise snapshot of what the > guest storage would have looked like at the instant that the storage > snapshot occurred. No, it isn't. Issuing a flush command on the host does not flush guests' buffers so what resides on the host's file system will not include what is buffered and not committed in the guests. If you make a snapshot of the host file system in this state then the guest file systems on the snapshot will be inconsistent and possibly unusable depending on the nature of the data. -- Rich P.
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