[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Any known block device corruption problems in 3.1.0 upto release?

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/6/07 07:42, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have gotten the server back up and running again by making the disk
> accessible to another DomU and running a chkdsk on it that way. It found
> a single corrupt index, repaired it, and everything is now fine. The
> corruption was probably limited to a single block, and may have just
> been caused by me shutting down the domain at exactly the wrong moment.
> 
> Can anyone comment on what write-back caching might be going on that
> could cause these sorts of problems?

If you did an unclean shutdown of the guest, and/or qemu-dm crashed then
that could easily explain small-scale block-device corruption. So the
question is: what events originally caused the unclean shutdown?

 -- Keir



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