[Users] CT produces corrupt dump files

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Mon Apr 22 16:30:50 EDT 2013


On 04/15/2013 02:53 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 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?
>

In fact that makes sense, thanks!

Implemented in git:
http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=commit;h=eca2ff062

Will appear in vzctl > 4.2


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