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Re: [Xen-users] [Iscsitarget-devel] tracking down cause of filesystem	co 
| Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2007 at 12:58, Steve Wray wrote:
> 
>> I've been testing iscsi for use in a XEN virtualisation environment and
>> have been getting pretty bad filesystem corruption after only about 30
>> minutes of use.
> 
> The obvious stupid question to ask it this: Are you sure you mount every 
> iSCSI 
> device only once? That would be the most obvious explanation for file system 
> corruption while the OS is running.
Absolutely; each iscsi volume is only used by one domU at a time and is
not mounted in dom0.
Unless something fishy happens when one performs live migration?
> AFAIR, the e2fsck package when being built can run an extensive set of 
> self-tests. 
> Maybe if you perform such a build on a iSCSI device, you could see how it 
> goes. If 
> it's without problems, the obvious thing to test would be the same situation 
> without XEN (if possible). If there's corruption even without XEN, something 
> is 
> severely wrong.
Ok thats something I will try out in the coming week or so,
Thanks!
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