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Re: [Xen-users] domU file system corruption

To: Thomas Knauth <thomas.knauth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] domU file system corruption
From: Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:50:33 +0100
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Hi Thomas,

2011/1/31 Thomas Knauth <thomas.knauth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I have a simple setup where VMs are created using the following command line
> file:/home/thomas/euca-debian-5.0-x86_64/vm1.img is an NFS mount
>
> For some reason, the virtual disk seems to get corrupted very
> frequently. Running e2fsck on the disk file (after powering down the

Can you try to "drop caches" via /proc after the vm shutdown? Then try
hard and see if you can reproduce the issue.
I think I remember loop devices are being buffered by the kernel, it
will not care that they reside on a "sync" filesystem like nfs.

Good luck,
Florian

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