On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:12:23AM -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there has been anyone else who has used this flag with > libguestfs (on RH 6.2) that has noticed file sync issues. > > force_raw_images=true > > I have been turning that to false so that images need not be expanded for > actual usage (it seems this only affects the base images in _base) but when > turning that to false and when file injection occurs, it seems that the files > get written (I've added os.listdir and such for debugging) but when unmounted > and later that image is started it seems like those files either do not get > synced back to the image (I even added a manual 'sync' call) or there is some > other corruption that happens that causes those images to not contain those > files when started (for reference I am using qcow2 files). > > Has anyone else seen this type of issue? > It seems when it is set to true it is not a problem, but when it isn't then > some weirdness happens....
If you suspect a libguestfs issue, make sure that tracing and/or debugging are enabled: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how_do_i_debug_when_using_the_api Padraig, can libguestfs debug output be captured and logged properly by Openstack? If not then we should add a way to do this. Let's talk about it tomorrow. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
