> Bad case of user error here but I managed to reformat one half of a
> btrfs volume that was set up with metadata raid-1 and data raid-0.

It won't help you - but did you format it with mkfs.btrfs, while it was mounted?

mkfs.btrfs behaves very dangerously here.


For example, we have a block device in use:

# cat /proc/swaps 
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/md0                                partition       10233276        0       
-1


mkfs for other filesystems will refuse to touch it, because it's in use:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/dev/md0 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!

# mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
mkfs.xfs: cannot open /dev/md0: Device or resource busy




mkfs.btrfs doesn't see a problem in creating a filesystem on a mounted block 
device:

# mkfs.btrfs /dev/md0

WARNING! - Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 IS EXPERIMENTAL
WARNING! - see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org before using

fs created label (null) on /dev/md0
        nodesize 4096 leafsize 4096 sectorsize 4096 size 9.76GB
Btrfs Btrfs v0.19



-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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