Hi Pavel I might have some more information on the issue. It seems that only 'old' ploop images cannot be mounted by ploop_userspace. I actually don't quite know the ploop version I used for creating the 'old' ploop images, but I know it works well with images created with ploop v1.6.
Does ploop_userspace know about older image formats? Roman On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 22:53 +0400, Pavel Odintsov wrote: > Hello! > > No, it's not depend on kernel version. I created issue for you and > will try to investigate: > https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/ploop_userspace/issues/10 please > track this github issue. > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some more info: > > > > It works on our test cluster where we have > > 2.6.32-openvz-042stab093.4-amd64 installed. The report from below is > > from a host node running 2.6.32-042stab081.3-amd64. > > > > Is ploop_userspace dependent on kernel version? > > > > Roman > > > > > > On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 15:59 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > >> Hi Pavel > >> > >> Your tool comes in handy. That is exactly what we'd need. However, I had > >> troubles using it. I did: > >> > >> $ ploop_userspace > >> /virtual/.snapshot/nightly.0/vz/private/2006/root.hdd/root.hdd > >> > >> We process: > >> /virtual/.snapshot/nightly.0/vz/private/2006/root.hdd/root.hdd > >> Ploop file size is: 4193255424 > >> version: 1 disk type: 2 heads count: 16 cylinder count: 81920 sector > >> count: 2048 size in tracks: 20480 size in sectors: 41943040 disk in use: > >> 1953459801 first block offset: 2048 flags: 0 > >> For storing 21474836480 bytes on disk we need 20480 ploop blocks > >> We have 1 BAT blocks > >> We have 262128 slots in 1 map > >> Number of non zero blocks in map: 3998 > >> Please be careful because this disk used now! If you need consistent > >> backup please stop VE > >> !!!ERROR!!! We can't found GPT table on this disk > >> !!!ERROR!!! We can't find ext4 signature > >> Set device /dev/nbd0 as read only > >> Try to found partitions on ploop device > >> First ploop partition was not detected properly, please call > >> partx/partprobe manually > >> You could mount ploop filesystem with command: mount -r -o noload > >> /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt > >> > >> > >> Despite the errors, I tried to mount the ploop-partition: > >> > >> $ mount -r -o noload /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt/ > >> > >> and got: > >> > >> mount: special device /dev/nbd0p1 does not exist > >> > >> Apparently, ploop_userspace wasn't able to read the GPT partition table. > >> > >> Tell me, if you need further information. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Roman > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 12:48 +0400, Pavel Odintsov wrote: > >> > Hello! > >> > > >> > You can mount ploop from RO root.hdd images with my tool: > >> > https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/ploop_userspace but it's not stable > >> > now. You can try it and provide feedback. > >> > > >> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > Hi all > >> > > > >> > > At the university I work, we plan to switch all containers from simfs > >> > > to > >> > > ploop images on the long run. Despite the many advantages of using > >> > > ploop, there is one major drawback that keeps us from switching > >> > > production already now: We can't mount ploop images from read-only > >> > > snapshots. In case of a recovery of a single file, we have to copy the > >> > > ploop image from the read-only snapshot to some read-write storage in > >> > > order to be able to mount it and extract the file. For CTs with huge > >> > > ploop-images this is a big hurdle. > >> > > > >> > > Wouldn't it be possible to add a some flag to the 'ploop' utility to > >> > > allow mounting ploop images from read-only storage (by bypassing some > >> > > checks or skipping to set the dirty flag or whatever is necessary)? > >> > > > >> > > Cheers, > >> > > Roman > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > Users mailing list > >> > > Users@openvz.org > >> > > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@openvz.org > > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users