Re: 4.0.1 i386 wedged

[Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost>]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:25:40PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>       hello.  I was under the impression that vnconfigging an nfs-mounted
> file continues to not work to today -- and that is why xen has such a hard
> time supporting guests under NFS.  In other words, "Don't do that".  If you
> need such a big file  vnconfigged, use local disk.
>       I could be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure I have it right.
> 

It _used_ to work - in recent years I did a recovery of a linux lvm
backup by nfs mounting the storage that had the file created by
dd'ing the linux disk, doing a vnconfig and then a lvm change to get at
the linux file systems.

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