Re: [Nbd] input/output error

I managed to reproduce it and get some more info. I wonder if the problem comes from the snapshot feature of qemu-nbd and will search further in that direction. Here is some more info
in cas it might be useful

When the problem occurs (the rsync cannot sync some file), here the error found in dmesg, and that for each file inaccessible:

[10281712.036554] block nbd0: Other side returned error (30)
[10281712.036626] end_request: I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048
[10281712.036672] Buffer I/O error on device nbd0p1, logical block 0
[10281712.045150] lost page write due to I/O error on nbd0p1
[10281712.045202] EXT4-fs error (device nbd0p1): ext4_lookup:1050: inode #265035: comm rsync: deleted inode referenced: 261670
[10281712.067196] EXT4-fs (nbd0p1): previous I/O error to superblock detected

Seems the inode had been deleted from the snapshot connected in read only mode!
Unmounting and remounting the nbd device gives a problem:
[10282154.368609] EXT4-fs (nbd0p1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[10282154.368615] EXT4-fs (nbd0p1): write access unavailable, cannot proceed

This leads me to think that the problem is not with nbd, but with the snapshot taking feature of qemu-nbd. Correct me if I'm wrong! ;-)

Raph

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Raphael Bauduin <rblists@...1402...7...> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a solution to take backups of kvm disk images by mounting a snapshot of it via nbd like this:

qemu-nbd --snapshot --read-only --connect /dev/nbd${nbd_num} --nocache $disk_file

I then mount it and rsync the content stored on the disk.

However, I have sometimes an input/output error. For example:

rsync: readlink_stat("/mnt/snapshots/kvmWeb03Staging/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/postmaster.pid") failed: Input/output error (5)

ls -l of the directory lists the file like this:

-????????? ? ? ? ? ? postmaster.pid

I'm trying to identify the source of this problem. This could be due to qemu-nbd's snapshots, but I'd like to hear your opinion too.

thanks!

Raph

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