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


  • To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:17:27 +0100
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:14:04 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: Acej9pJOFjEXA1grRAG1eqoZygIVUQALrf0Z
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Any known block device corruption problems in 3.1.0 up to release?

What type of block-device backend were you using? Since it's a Windows guest
presumably there are no PV drivers involved? Was the process that crashed
qemu-dm?

 -- Keir

On 1/6/07 03:43, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just had a virtual windows small business server that I was testing
> suddenly refuse to boot (black screen almost immediately). It was
> apparently working fine and then suddenly wouldn't boot. When I boot
> from the CD into the windows recovery console, chkdsk tells me "The
> volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems", and no
> more information than that. It looks like I can see the files on the
> harddisk, but when I try to create a directory or something I get
> "access denied".
> 
> It seems that some sort of fairly major block device corruption has
> occurred, which isn't a good result for the testing I'm doing.
> 
> I did notice that something seemed to segfault and then I couldn't
> connect via VNC at about the time the corruption would have occurred...
> 
> I'm using a version of Xen which I think slightly pre-dates the 3.1.0
> release, on an AMD64 system which has not shown any other indication of
> problems apart from this one incidence of corruption.
> 
> Are there any known block device corruption issues slightly before the
> 3.1.0 release that have been subsequently fixed? I guess it's worth
> building a newer version, but I'd like to know that there was definitely
> a known problem and it's definitely fixed...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
> 
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