<div dir="auto">The file may have been unlinked (name to inode mapping removed from the filesystem), but the inode and therefore the data will stay until no process references the inode. I *think* this may be what's happening in your case?<div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">Peter </div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 15 May 2019, 14:25 Lentes, Bernd, <<a href="mailto:bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de">bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, i have a strange situation: A domain is still running where domblklist points to a snapshot file and also dumpxml says the current drive is that snapshot file. But the file has been deleted hours ago. And the domain is still running. I can login via ssh, the database and the webserver are still running, domain is performant. How can that be ? Also lsof shows that the file is deleted: qemu-syst 27007 qemu 15ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) qemu-syst 27007 qemu 16ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) qemu-syst 27007 27288 qemu 15ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) qemu-syst 27007 27288 qemu 16ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) CPU\x200/ 27007 27308 qemu 15ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) CPU\x200/ 27007 27308 qemu 16ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) CPU\x201/ 27007 27309 qemu 15ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) CPU\x201/ 27007 27309 qemu 16ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) vnc_worke 27007 27321 qemu 15ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) vnc_worke 27007 27321 qemu 16ur REG 254,14 335609856 183599 /mnt/snap/<a href="http://sim.sn" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sim.sn</a> (deleted) Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institut für Entwicklungsgenetik Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum münchen <a href="mailto:bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de</a> phone: +49 89 3187 1241 phone: +49 89 3187 3827 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 <a href="http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg</a> wer Fehler macht kann etwas lernen wer nichts macht kann auch nichts lernen Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg <a href="http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.helmholtz-muenchen.de</a> Stellv. Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: MinDirig. Dr. Manfred Wolter Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschoep, Heinrich Bassler, Kerstin Guenther Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671 _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users</a></blockquote></div>