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Re: [Xen-users] Scary!!! Lost domU!!!

To: James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Scary!!! Lost domU!!!
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:59:24 +0200
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:32:01PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> I've been on vacation (and still am) but had to work on a couple
> problems. I have a couple Citrix servers that are domU's on a sles10sp2
> server that has local storage and connects to two ocfs2 volumes. 
> 
> I tried to restart one of the Citrix servers and it would not restart,
> giving an error that the disk was already mounted in a loopback, etc. I
> looked at mount and didn't see anything mounted and I had just shut the
> domU down. I assumed it had not shut down completely. This domU runs
> from the local disk. 
> 
> So I decided to a restart of the host was in order. I downed the rest of
> the domU's, including an oracle server running off one of the ocfs2
> clusters. This servers has been being used for the last three weeks from
> this location. 
> 
> After restarting dom0 I started bringing the domU's back up. All of them
> came back up fine, except for the oracle server. It gave an error that
> the disk files did not exist, and they don't, they aren't there
> anymore. 
> 
> I checked and double checked history to see if any rm commands had been
> given and I didn't find any. 
> 
> ???When I restarted, there was an error on one of the local file systems
> that said "JDB: barrier-based sync failed...".
> 
> Luckily I have a copy of this domU from a few weeks ago BEFORE I copied
> it to the ocfs2 volume. What could explain the sudden deletion of a
> directory like this?
> 
> If this happened on some of the other domU's it could be ugly. 
> 
> Any advice is appreciated!!!!
> 

Sounds like a problem with OCFS2. This is exactly the reason why I don't
like storing VM disk images on a filesystem - fsck or this kind of weird
filesystem error can completely f*ck up the disk images.

I suggest LVM for guest disks.

Sorry, I can't really help with the problem. Did you try fsck? 

-- Pasi


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