Maybe hold off erasing the drives a little in case someone wants to collect some extra data for diagnosing how/why the filesystem got into this unrecoverable state.
A single device having issues should not cause the whole filesystem to become unrecoverable. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Janos Toth F. <toth.f.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I went through all the recovery options I could find (starting from > read-only to "extraordinarily dangerous"). Nothing seemed to work. > > A Windows based proprietary recovery software (ReclaiMe) could scratch > the surface but only that (it showed me the whole original folder > structure after a few minutes of scanning and the "preview" of some > some plaintext files was promising but most of the bigger files seemed > to be broken). > > I used this as a bulk storage for backups and all the things I didn't > care to keep in more than one copies but that includes my > "scratchpad", so I cared enough to use RAID5 mode and to try restoring > some things. > > Any last ideas before I "ata secure erase" and sell/repurpose the disks? > -- > 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 -- 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