[Users] CT produces corrupt dump files

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 05:53:44 EDT 2013


On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 11:14 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> 
> On one of our host nodes this problem even triggered a kernel panic and
> thus killed all CTs running on that host. The problem could have been
> mitigated if 'vzctl start' would not try to read corrupt dump files. Or,
> if it detects a dump file corruption, it should ignore the dump file and
> start normally. 

Thinking more about it, shouldn't 'vzctl start <ctid>' even remove the
dump file after a start anyway? The data from the dump file is of no
value anymore soon as the CT is running. Thus it should be safe to just
delete dump files if some problem occurs. Does that make sense?

Roman




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