Live Migration does not work unless cache=none
Bug #1222682 reported by
Jesse Pretorius
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OpenStack Compute (nova) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Yassine | ||
openstack-manuals |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
If O_DIRECT is not supported, 'cache=none' is not set. Thus, Live Migration gives the following error:
"Live Migration failure: Unsafe migration: Migration may lead to data corruption if disks use cache != none"
However, it is ok to migrate if the storage is "coherent" across nodes. So Nova's live-migration should support the Libvirt's unsafe=True flag.
Ideally there should be a nova flag which can be set to pass through the libvirt 'unsafe=true' flag. My thinking is that if 'cache=
tags: | added: libvirt |
Changed in nova: | |
assignee: | nobody → Yassine (yassine-lamgarchal) |
Changed in openstack-manuals: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → icehouse |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
tags: | added: nova |
Changed in openstack-manuals: | |
milestone: | icehouse → none |
Changed in nova: | |
status: | In Progress → Won't Fix |
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Fix proposed to branch: master /review. openstack. org/49329
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