[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1250360] Re: qcow2 image logical corruption after host crash

[Thomas Huth <1250360@bugs.launchpad.net>]

Did this issue happen ever again with a recent version of QEMU? ... if
not, should we close this bug nowadays?

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  qcow2 image logical corruption after host crash

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Description of problem:
  In case of power failure disk images that were active and created in qcow2 format can become logically corrupt so that they actually appear as unused (full of zeroes).
  Data seems to be there, but at this moment i cannot find any reliable method to recover it. Should it be a raw image, a recovery path would be available, but a qcow2 image only presents zeroes once it gets corrupted. My understanding is that the blockmap of the image gets reset and the image is then assumed to be unused.
  My detailed setup :

  Kernel 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64
  qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.0.1.el6.centos.7.x86_64
  Used via libvirt libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.14.x86_64
  The image was used from a NFS share (the nfs server did NOT crash and remained permanently active).

  qemu-img check finds no corruption;
  qemu-img convert will fully convert the image to raw at a raw image full of zeroes. However, there is data in the file, and the storage backend was not restarted, inactivated during the incident.
  I encountered this issue on two different machines, in both cases i was not able to recover the data.
  Image was qcow2, thin provisioned, created like this :
   qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=2M imagename.img

  While addressing the root cause in order to not have this issue repeat
  would be the ideal scenario, a temporary workaround to run on the
  affected qcow2 image to "patch" it and recover the data (eventually
  after a full fsck/recovery inside the guest) would also be good.
  Otherwise we are basically losing data on a large scale when using
  qcow2.


  Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  Kernel 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64
  qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.0.1.el6.centos.7.x86_64
  Used via libvirt libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.14.x86_64

  How reproducible:
  I am not able (and don't have at the moment enough resources to try to manually reproduce it), but the probability of the issue seems quite high as this is the second case of such corruption in weeks.
  Additional info:
  I can privately provide an image displaying the corruption.

  The reported problem has actually two aspects : first is the cause that eventually produces this issue.
  The second is the fact that once the logical corruption has occured, qemu-img check finds nothing wrong with the image - this is obviously wrong.

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