On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:41:43AM +0200, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >>very much lines like this, a bit while booting, and very much while 
> >>using the system (e.g. doing du -sh),
> >>end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 1236704
> >
> >Are you sure you're not using sparse files for this domU ?
> 
> yes I'm using a file, but it's not sparse.  In the given example, it's a 
> hard 1GB filesystem image, used by vnconfig.
> 
> node2# ls -lhF
> total 1.1G
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  296B Jun 18 16:27 fedora.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1.0G Mar 26  2006 fedora.fc6.img
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  202B Mar 13 01:50 fedora.fc6.xen2.cfg
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  206B Mar 14 02:34 fedora.fc6.xen3.cfg
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   64M Mar 15 02:53 fedora.swap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   70M Jun 18 15:30 modules.ext2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1.4M Jun 18 15:30 vmlinuz
> node2#
> 
> This one came from jailtime.org, but I did some SLES9sp3 on my own and 
> had the same problem (also in a fixed size ext3 file, using 
> e2fsprogs/mkfs.ext3 -F).

And what does du -h report on these files ?
ls -l won't tell if a file is sparce or not.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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