From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: the >1Tb block issue Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:59:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20100518155945.GT8328@redhat.com> References: <4BF2B7CD.7090204@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: KVM list To: Michael Tokarev Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:8603 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754105Ab0ERP7x (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 11:59:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BF2B7CD.7090204@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:52:45PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > I just re-verified it on current stable > qemu-kvm-0.12.4. The issue is still here, > trivial to trigger. > > kvm-img create test.raw 1500G > kvm ... \ > -drive file=test.raw,if=virtio > > it fails right on the mkfs stage: > > mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb > Writing inode tables: end_request: I/O error, dev vdb, sector 3145727872 > Buffer I/O error on device vdb, logical block 393215984 > lost page write due to I/O error on vdb > Buffer I/O error on device vdb, logical block 393215985 > ... > Buffer I/O error on device vdb, logical block 393215993 > > After that it continues the mkfs process, but I doubt it will > produce a good filesystem. > > So far, only virtio has this problem. I tested with if=ide, it's > slower but it went much further without any error. It's still > running, but at this rate it will run for some hours more ;) > At least it does not spew errors like the virtio case. FYI this is a really useful tool for validating correctness of the block layer. http://people.redhat.com/sct/src/verify-data/ Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|