comment from anthony on the review request.
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This srcipt is not used for XS 6.2 + SP1 + FOX and above, vdi.copy is
used instead. it is good to have this fix though.
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~Rajani
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Remi Bergsma <rberg...@schubergphilis.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
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> This summer we had some serious issues with creating snapshots on
> XenServer, see CLOUDSTACK-7319 for details. Long story short, to copy the
> ‘dd’ command was used and that hammered dom0 until it would crash/fence.
> The script that did the copy at the time was vmopsSnapshot. We added two
> flags: iflag=direct and oflag=direct. Problem solved from 4.4.0 and on
> you’d expect.
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> We just had a hypervisor crashing due to heavy dd load again. Eventually,
> it could not reach the storage any more so it fenced. When investigating,
> we found that the copy is now done again without the direct flags. The
> reason is that the script has been removed and that a xapi plugin is now
> used instead. Problem is that this does not use the direct flags :-s So our
> issue is back.
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> /etc/xapi.d/plugins/copy:
> def dd_vdi__(src_dev, dest_dev):
> os.system('dd if=/dev/%s of=/dev/%s bs=2M' % (src_dev, dest_dev))
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> We will be hot fixing all hypervisors and add the flags asap.
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> This happens from 4.4 and on if you’re using XenServer 6.2.5 (which is
> 6.2.0 with patch XS62ESP1004). If you run this XenServer version, I’d patch
> the copy script asap.
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> Regards,
> Remi
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