From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Recover from corrupt tdb on reboot
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:03:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071105200326.GF12917@totally.trollied.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071105195659.GB18245@redhat.com>
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:56:59PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange 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....
Keir, others? Given that xenstored restartability is quite some way off?
regards
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-05 17:36 [PATCH] Recover from corrupt tdb on reboot Markus Armbruster
2007-11-05 19:43 ` John Levon
2007-11-05 19:56 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-11-05 20:03 ` John Levon [this message]
2007-11-06 7:08 ` Keir Fraser
2007-11-06 13:54 ` John Levon
2007-11-06 16:01 ` Keir Fraser
2007-11-06 16:25 ` John Levon
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