diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/047 b/tests/qemu-iotests/047
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..0cf36b434f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/047
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Regression test for commit b7ab0fea (which was a corruption fix,
+# despite the commit message claiming otherwise)
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see .
+#
+
+# creator
+owner=kwolf@redhat.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+tmp=/tmp/$$
+status=1 # failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+ _cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto generic
+_supported_os Linux
+
+size=128M
+
+_make_test_img $size
+
+function qemu_io_cmds()
+{
+cat < wrote 327680/327680 bytes at offset 0
+320 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 327680
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1048576
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 458752
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> discard 131072/131072 bytes at offset 327680
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> wrote 491520/491520 bytes at offset 0
+480 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> read 491520/491520 bytes at offset 0
+480 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> read 98304/98304 bytes at offset 491520
+96 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> read 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1048576
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-io> No errors were found on the image.
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index a0307de06b..1bbd2bf929 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -53,3 +53,4 @@
044 rw auto
045 rw auto
046 rw auto aio
+047 rw auto