On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:29:35PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: >> Convert man page for btrfs-zero-log >> >> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwen...@cn.fujitsu.com> >> --- >> Documentation/Makefile | 2 +- >> Documentation/btrfs-zero-log.txt | 39 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> create mode 100644 Documentation/btrfs-zero-log.txt >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile >> index e002d53..de06629 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/Makefile >> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile >> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ MAN8_TXT += btrfs-image.txt >> MAN8_TXT += btrfs-map-logical.txt >> MAN8_TXT += btrfs-show-super.txt >> MAN8_TXT += btrfstune.txt >> -#MAN8_TXT += btrfs-zero-log.txt >> +MAN8_TXT += btrfs-zero-log.txt >> #MAN8_TXT += fsck.btrfs.txt >> #MAN8_TXT += mkfs.btrfs.txt >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-zero-log.txt >> b/Documentation/btrfs-zero-log.txt >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..e3041fa >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-zero-log.txt >> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ >> +btrfs-zero-log(8) >> +================= >> + >> +NAME >> +---- >> +btrfs-zero-log - clear out log tree >> + >> +SYNOPSIS >> +-------- >> +'btrfs-zero-log' <dev> >> + >> +DESCRIPTION >> +----------- >> +'btrfs-zero-log' will remove the log tree if log tree is corrupt, which will >> +allow you to mount the filesystem again. >> + >> +The common case where this happens has been fixed a long time ago, >> +so it is unlikely that you will see this particular problem. > > A note on this one: this can happen if your SSD rites things in the > wrong order or potentially writes garbage when power is lost, or before > locking up. > I hit this problem about 10 times and it wasn't a btrfs bug, just the > drive doing bad things.
And -o recovery didn't work around it? My understanding is that -o recovery will skip reading the log. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
