I've hit similar issues with XFS, and used the not-so-lovely workaround of setting 'barrier=0' as mount options for that filesystem, which works great. Not sure if it'd work with ext4 or not.
@Malcolm, do you have a Ticket ID that I can reference in a support ticket to Citrix? Side note - XenServer 6.1 sounds like it's still a ways out, at least last I heard. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824089 Title: Xen blkfront i/o errors prevent boot in domU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/824089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs