[Fedora-xen] kernel-xen-guest-2.6.15-1.1955_FC5 seems to eat filesystems

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 20:30 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> I updated my Xen test box to rawhide a few days ago, and I was happy
> to find that it not only booted the hypervisor kernel (which hadn't
> been working on this old dual PIII), but the guest kernels started up
> too.
> 
> Now it looks like the filesystems on all three guests I was running
> are trashed.  The first one I checked was so bad that e2fsck
> segfaulted when I tried to repair it.
> 
> The host itself checks out fine, so it doesn't seem to be a problem
> with kernel-xen-hypervisor.
> 
> Is this a known issue, or something I should bugzilla?

I haven't seen any such problems: indeed, a full guest install is a
pretty fs-intensive activity but that seems to work fine for me.  I last
tried with the 1.1948 kernels, though --- about to try with 1.1955 to
see how that goes.

Do you have any more details on what went wrong?

Thanks,
 Stephen