Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:33:26 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss Message-ID: <1375875206.17235.7056435.2CBB92C6@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <51FC65DF.2090606@rawbw.com> References: <51FC65DF.2090606@rawbw.com>
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Virtualbox is very aggressive about caching writes. This is how it achieves its perceived speed. I wouldn't expect to see this happen on real hardware. I might have to try this out though and see if I can reproduce it reliably.
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