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Re: [Xen-users] domU file system corruption

To: Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] domU file system corruption
From: Thomas Knauth <thomas.knauth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:03:08 +0100
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> 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.

I resorted to calling /bin/sync after shutting down the VM. This seems to help.

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