Maybe turn on logging on Ganesha and look for anything interesting?  
Also, packet dumps would be useful.  I haven't personally stored KVM 
images on NFS, let alone via Proxy, so I don't have any personal 
experience in this.
What's the OS/version of the original NFS server that Ganesha's proxying?
Daniel
On 3/9/20 5:46 PM, Todd Pfaff wrote:
 I have a reproduceable problem when trying to boot a kvm guest whose
 root filesystem is on an nfs path that is accessed from the kvm virt 
 host via nfs-ganesha-2.8 and the proxy fsal.
 All hosts involved: kvm host, kvm guest, and nfs-ganesha server, run 
 CentOS 7.
 The guest begins to boot but consistently fails just after the switch 
 root with ext4 errors like this:
 [  OK  ] Started Plymouth switch root service.
          Starting Switch Root...
 [   15.154967] systemd-journald[145]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1 
 (systemd).
 [   15.168447] EXT4-fs error (device vda1): __ext4_get_inode_loc:4247: 
 inode #131073: block 524320: comm systemd: unable to read itable block
 [   15.269495] EXT4-fs warning (device vda1): 
 __ext4_read_dirblock:676: error reading directory block (ino 524296, 
 block 0)
 [   15.278651] systemd[1]: Failed to execute /sbin/init, giving up: 
 Input/output error
 I'm using nfs-ganesha from the CentOS 7 Storage SIG.
 I've tested with both the latest stable 2.8 version from repo
 [centos-nfs-ganesha28]:
   nfs-ganesha-2.8.3-3.el7.x86_64
 and the latest test version from [centos-nfs-ganesha28-test]:
   nfs-ganesha-2.8.3-4.el7.x86_64
 with similar results.  I've also tried with nfs v3 and nfs v4.1 mounts 
 from the kvm host.
 The kvm guest disk is defined as:
   <disk type='file' device='disk'>
     <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
     <source file='/mnt/ganesha/kvm/guest.qcow2'/>
     <target dev='vdc' bus='virtio'/>
     <boot order='1'/>
     <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x08'
       function='0x0'/>
   </disk>
 The kvm guest works fine if the kvm host accesses this qcow2 image via 
 a direct nfs mount instead of via nfs-ganesha proxy.
 Thoughts?
 Thanks,
 Todd
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