[Openstack-operators] /var/lib/nova/instances fs filled up corrupting my Linux instances

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu Mar 14 14:32:09 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> wrote:

> The scenario that I ran into had these conditions:
>
> 1. Using shared storage
> 2. All instances (1 or more) of a certain image or snapshots are running on
> one compute node
> 3. That compute node is taken down for 10 minutes or so (reboot,
> maintenance, etc)
> 4. That compute node is unable to mark its _base files as being in use since
> it's offline
> 5. Other compute nodes see that those _base files are not in use and delete
> them
> 6. The compute node comes back online and the image/snapshot in question is
> now broke
>
> Has that scenario been accounted for or fixed?

I'll check. What is the launchpad bug id?

Michael



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