Control: tags -1 +moreinfo On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:20:10 +1100 Russell Coker <russ...@coker.com.au> wrote:
Thanks for the report, sorry that it seems to have slipped through the cracks. > If there is a problem that prevents correctly allocating the block > device (see the above URL for a description of how I encountered it when > using a CentOS kernel) then it will not free the loop device. When the > domain is destroyed with "xm destroy" it will leave the loopback device, > if you run that a few times (EG you have a script to restart DomU's on > error) then you run out of loopback devices for the system. > > The error handling code needs to deal with this case. Looking at the current upstream code it seems things have changed since this report was filed, and I know that xl is a bit better about handling of when the hotplug scripts are run on teardown etc. So I have a reasonably high hope that this issue has gone away, can you confirm? Thanks, Ian.
