[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 227/233: FAQ: Remove obsolete entry about libguestfs <= 1.13 and slow writes.
Hilko Bengen
bengen at moszumanska.debian.org
Wed Feb 19 21:12:31 UTC 2014
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commit b987be513a919e91b79a045095f9b84db625165f
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date: Sun Feb 16 19:20:40 2014 +0000
FAQ: Remove obsolete entry about libguestfs <= 1.13 and slow writes.
Long since not a problem.
---
examples/guestfs-faq.pod | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/examples/guestfs-faq.pod b/examples/guestfs-faq.pod
index f88c810..85564a1 100644
--- a/examples/guestfs-faq.pod
+++ b/examples/guestfs-faq.pod
@@ -628,18 +628,6 @@ L<guestfs-performance(1)>.
=head2 Upload or write seem very slow.
-In libguestfs E<lt> 1.13.16, the mount command
-(L<guestfs(3)/guestfs_mount>) enabled option C<-o sync> implicitly.
-This causes very poor write performance, and was one of the main
-gotchas for new libguestfs users.
-
-For libguestfs E<lt> 1.13.16, replace mount with C<mount-options>,
-leaving the first parameter as an empty string.
-
-You can also do this with more recent versions of libguestfs, but if
-you know that you are using libguestfs ≥ 1.13.16 then it's safe to use
-plain mount.
-
If the underlying disk is not fully allocated (eg. sparse raw or
qcow2) then writes can be slow because the host operating system has
to do costly disk allocations while you are writing. The solution is
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