Looks like zeroing out the metadata volume with a dd operation was working.
Can u try to remove the Storage Domain and add it back again now
Regards,
Maor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Devin A. Bougie" <devin.bougie(a)cornell.edu>
To: "Maor Lipchuk" <mlipchuk(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 11:28:01 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Error while executing action New SAN Storage Domain: Cannot
zero out volume
Hi Maor,
On Oct 25, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Maor Lipchuk <mlipchuk(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> few questions:
> Which RHEL version is installed on your Host?
7.1
> Can you please share the output of "ls -l
> /dev/cb5b0e2e-d68d-462a-b8fa-8894a6e0ed19/"
[root@lnx84 ~]# ls -l /dev/cb5b0e2e-d68d-462a-b8fa-8894a6e0ed19/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 23 16:05 ids -> ../dm-23
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 23 16:05 inbox -> ../dm-24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 23 16:05 leases -> ../dm-22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 23 16:05 metadata -> ../dm-20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 23 16:05 outbox -> ../dm-21
> What happen when you run this command from your Host:
> /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/cb5b0e2e-d68d-462a-b8fa-8894a6e0ed19/metadata bs=1048576 seek=0
> skip=0 conv=notrunc count=40 oflag=direct
[root@lnx84 ~]# /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cb5b0e2e-d68d-462a-b8fa-8894a6e0ed19/metadata
bs=1048576 seek=0 skip=0 conv=notrunc count=40 oflag=direct
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
41943040 bytes (42 MB) copied, 0.435552 s, 96.3 MB/s
> Also, please consider to open a bug at
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=oVirt, with all the logs
> and output so it can be resolved ASAP.
I'll open a bug report in the morning unless you have any other suggestions.
Many thanks for following up!
Devin