On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:46:59PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.bt...@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > There must be something wrong, however due to the size of the fs, and
> > the complexity of extent tree, I can't tell.
> 
> Right, which is why I'm asking if any of the metadata integrity
> checker mask options might reveal what's going wrong?
> 
> I guess the big issues are:
> a. compile kernel with CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY=y is necessary
> b. it can come with a high resource burden depending on the mask and
> where the log is being written (write system logs to a different file
> system for sure)
> c. the granularity offered in the integrity checker might not be enough.
> d. might take a while before corruptions are injected before
> corruption is noticed and flagged.

Back to where I'm at right now. I'm going to delete this filesystem and
start over very soon. Tomorrow or the day after.
I'm happy to get more data off it if someone wants it for posterity, but
I indeed need to recover soon since being with a dead backup server is
not a good place to be in :)

Thanks,
Marc
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