https://rlife.in/tags/storage/ Recent content in Storage on RLife — Infrastructure War Stories Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0530 https://rlife.in/posts/qcow2-free-clusters-crash-fix/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0530 https://rlife.in/posts/qcow2-free-clusters-crash-fix/ A production VM died with qcow2 metadata corruption. How I diagnosed it with qemu-img check, repaired the image without losing data, and what actually causes this.