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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:42:37 +0200
From:	Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net>
To:	carsteno@...ibm.com
Cc:	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
	"kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" <kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] severe bug in 2.6.23+ kvm.git

Carsten Otte a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Could you please precise what is corrupted? The guest disk image?
> As stated, we actually did not run any guests and did not load the kvm 
> kernel modules.
> The host root file system gets corrupted to an extend not correctable 
> by the file system checker (we gave it 24h to repair, then interrupted 
> it), and it's very easy to reproduce: a simple kernel make on the 
> hosts lets us reinstall the entire host operating system.

How do you know the problem has been introduced by kvm ?

Laurent
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---------------- Laurent.Vivier@...l.net  -----------------
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" E. S. Raymond

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