On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Ryan C. Underwood
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > Unfortunately, I am going to have to give up on btrfs if it
>> > is really so fragile.
>>
>> However, complaining about the fragility of a still in development
>> and
>> marked experimental filesystem would seem disingenuous at best.
> [snip paragraphs of tut-tutting]
>> IOW, yes, btrfs is to be considered fragile at this point.
>
> So you re-stated my position.  I gave btrfs a chance but it is still
> apparently far more fragile than ext4 when corruption is introduced --
> although btrfs is the filesystem of the two which is specifically
> designed to provide internal fault tolerance and resilience.  Is there
> a fine line between "user feedback" and "disingenuous complaining"
> that I am not aware of?
>
> The data in question is not that important, though I would like to
> have it back considering it should mostly still be there as on the
> ext4 volumes.  40MB of bad sectors on one 2TB disk in a 6TB volume
> does not seem like a lot.  Even if the whole beginning of the volume
> was wiped out surely there is the equivalent of backup superblocks?  I
> can hack if I could just get a clue where to start.
>

Since you're getting "failed to read /dev/sr0" messages, that might be
an indication there are some newer btrfs-progs tools available.

You might want to try the building btrfs-progs from the git repository:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-progs.git;a=summary

There are some recovery tools there that may extract your data (look
at the "recover" program).
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