Re: [PATCH] Recover from corrupt tdb on reboot

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:43:19PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> 
> > Xen cannot work when xenstored's tdb is corrupt.  When that happens
> > somehow (and we've seen it happen), even reboot doesn't recover from
> > it.  It could: there is no state in tdb that needs to be persisted
> > across reboots.
> 
> We're putting the tdb in a tmpfs (in the short-term), is there a reason
> you can't do that too? Especially as it's way faster.

That's exactly what we're doing in Fedora 9, but this patch was really
for the benefit of any existing deployment who might not want to change
their setup for TDB storage. If we want to switch xen-unstable to use
tmpfs by default, then this patch would likely be unnecessary....

Regards,
Dan.
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