[openstack-dev] [cinder] qemu-img disk corruption bug to patch or not?
Philipp Marek
philipp.marek at linbit.com
Fri Feb 20 06:27:33 UTC 2015
> > In September I started working on a simple (but controvertial) fix in nova[1]
> > to avoid some disk corruption issues. John kindly ran with a similar fix to cinder[2].
> > John's review ended up in merge conflict so I tried my own version [3].
> Thanks for sending this out, and for the complete summary. I'm
> inclined to lean towards working the option for Cinder personally.
> Granted it looks like the update is in the distro packages to fix
> this, but I'm wondering about backport and cases for installs that are
> on say 12.04? Maybe that's not an issue?
>
> Anybody else have thoughts on this?
Potentially corrupted images are bad; depending on the affected data it
might only be diagnosed some time after installation, so IMO the fix is
needed.
Only a minor issue: I'd like to see it have a check for the qemu version,
and only then kick in.
Regards,
Phil
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