Xen users - Mar 2010 - Anything wrong with ext3 for storage?

I''m having a very strange problem. I have a fully patched sles11 server
running xen 3.4. Because of problems I''ve been having with ocfs2, I
added another local disk to this server (still from our SAN). I
formatted the disk using ext3. 

When I copy my Windows domU''s to this new drive, they only boot one
time. If I try to restart the domU, it''s like it can''t find
the boot
partition.

If I run the exact domU off my ocfs2 volume it works fine, reboots, etc.
It also works if I copy it to my sles10sp2 server. In both of these
cases the storage is ocfs2.

Anyone have any idea what could explain this? 

Thanks,
James


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On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 09:51 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> I''m having a very strange problem. I have a fully patched sles11
server
> running xen 3.4. Because of problems I''ve been having with ocfs2,
I
> added another local disk to this server (still from our SAN). I
> formatted the disk using ext3. 
> 
> When I copy my Windows domU''s to this new drive, they only boot
one
> time. If I try to restart the domU, it''s like it can''t
find the boot
> partition.
> 
> If I run the exact domU off my ocfs2 volume it works fine, reboots, etc.
> It also works if I copy it to my sles10sp2 server. In both of these
> cases the storage is ocfs2.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what could explain this? 
> 
Apparently it''s just something wrong with this server, because they do
not work off ocfs2 either. 

Is there a way to tell what the last updates were run on a sles server? 

Thanks,
James


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