Live Merge failed with "Bad volume chain" errors
Issue
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Live Merge (snapshot deletion) failed.
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A subsequent attempt to create a new snapshot resulted in one disk being left in a
locked
state. -
The specific error in the vdsm logs on the host on which the VM was running was Bad volume chain found for drive virtio-diskN.
Environment
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3 hosts
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