Misleading error message in btrfsctl

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Klotz
Calling btrfsctl results in this message when module btrfs.ko is not loaded: r...@asus:/root# btrfsctl -A /dev/sda ioctl:: Bad file descriptor An strace shows that actually opening of /dev/btrfs-control failed. open(/dev/btrfs-control, O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Re: Misleading error message in btrfsctl

2009-01-18 Thread Calvin Walton
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:40 +0100, Peter Klotz wrote: Calling btrfsctl results in this message when module btrfs.ko is not loaded: r...@asus:/root# btrfsctl -A /dev/sda ioctl:: Bad file descriptor .. The output with applied patch: r...@asus:/root# btrfsctl -A /dev/sda failed to open

sysreccd with btrfs support

2009-01-18 Thread Christian Hesse
Hi everybody, we have a live cd with up to date btrfs support now! I mailed Francois and prepared some packages, he included it in the beta6 of his sysreccd. So go and get it: http://sysresccd.org/Beta-x86 Thanks a lot to Francois for his work! If anybody is interested in testing btrfs with