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Currently a single storage volume with a broken backing file will disable the
whole storage pool. This can happen when the backing file is on some
unavailable network storage or if the backing volume is deleted, while the
storage volumes using it remain.
Since the storage pool can not be re-activated, re-creating the missing
or deleting the now useless volumes using libvirt only is not possible.
Fixing this is a little bit tricky:
1. virStorageBackendProbeTarget() only detects the missing backing file,
if the backing file format is not explicitly specified. If the
backing file is created using
kvm-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_fmt=qcow2,backing_file=... ...
no error is detected at this stage.
The new return code -3 signals that the backing file could not be
opened.
2. The backingStore.format must be >= 0, since values < 0 would break
virStorageVolTargetDefFormat() when dumping the XML data such as
<format type='...'/>
Because of this the format is faked as VIR_STORAGE_FILE_RAW.
3. virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfo() always opens the backing file
and thus always detects a missing backing file.
Since it "only" updates the capacity, allocation, owner, group, mode
and SELinux label, just ignore errors at this stage, print an error
message and continue.
4. Using vol-dump on a broken volume still doesn't work, but at least
vol-destroy and pool-refresh do work now.
To reproduce:
dir=$(mktemp -d)
virsh pool-create-as tmp dir '' '' '' '' "$dir"
virsh vol-create-as --format qcow2 tmp back 1G
virsh vol-create-as --format qcow2 --backing-vol-format qcow2 --backing-vol back tmp cow 1G
virsh vol-delete --pool tmp back
virsh pool-refresh tmp
After the last step, the pool will be gone (because it was not persistent). As
long as the now broken image stays in the directory, you will not be able to
re-create or re-start the pool.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>