Re: After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss

2013-08-08 Thread Sergey Slobodyanyuk
On 08/07/2013 01:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: not possible in FreeBSD with UFS. but if you run virtualbox under linux i cannot say much... This happened with FreeBSD guest with UFS (journaled soft-updates) and FreeBSD host. What is out of normal, it rolled back for many hours (~20).

Re: After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss

2013-08-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I hit this unexpected problem: my host had an ungraceful shutdown while FreeBSD 9.1 STABLE was running in the VirtualBox VM. After reboot of the host and VM, local ufs file system was missing all recent updates for at least 20 hours (!!!) My question is, how is this possible? Is this related to

Re: After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss

2013-08-07 Thread Mark Felder
Virtualbox is very aggressive about caching writes. This is how it achieves its perceived speed. I wouldn't expect to see this happen on real hardware. I might have to try this out though and see if I can reproduce it reliably. ___

Re: After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss

2013-08-07 Thread Yuri
On 08/07/2013 01:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: not possible in FreeBSD with UFS. but if you run virtualbox under linux i cannot say much... This happened with FreeBSD guest with UFS (journaled soft-updates) and FreeBSD host. What is out of normal, it rolled back for many hours (~20). Yuri

After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss

2013-08-02 Thread Yuri
I hit this unexpected problem: my host had an ungraceful shutdown while FreeBSD 9.1 STABLE was running in the VirtualBox VM. After reboot of the host and VM, local ufs file system was missing all recent updates for at least 20 hours (!!!) My question is, how is this possible? Is this related to