Re: RAID5 Unable to remove Failing HD

2016-04-19 Thread Duncan
e 15th of February. It was the kernel patches >> and was slated for the kernel 4.6 dev cycle. However, the patch set >> was pulled at that time due to test failures, tho they were suspected >> to actually be from something else. > > Thanks Duncan. Yep the report

Re: [resend] btrfs-send -c fails: reproduction case

2016-04-19 Thread Duncan
es given. Which explains the error complaining about being unable to find a parent, when given only clone sources that (based on your reproducer) had nothing in common with the snapshots listed as clones. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a mas

Re: Kernel crash if both devices in raid1 are failing

2016-04-19 Thread Duncan
for me, turned out to be hardware. I've had no issues since I replaced that failing ssd, and with a bit of luck, won't be running restore again for a few years, now.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you

Re: RAID5 Unable to remove Failing HD

2016-04-19 Thread Duncan
nd that what's not backed up you're not too worried about losing. Despite btrfs not being entirely stable as yet, it's surprising the number of cases we see where that's not the case. So kudos for being a wise sysadmin, and appreciating that data that's not backed u

Re: btrfs-send -c fails: reproduction case

2016-04-16 Thread Duncan
remental sends can only be used as long as you have the same previous - p and -c snapshots to reference on both sides. Don't delete (or change) your reference unless you either (a) never plan to use it as a send reference again, or (b) are willing to do a full non-incremental send

Re: RAID6, errors at missing device replacement

2016-04-16 Thread Duncan
course to Anand Jain for posting the patches so you can. =:^) Your work is directly contributing to it being more mature at mainline feature release, so that (unlike raid56) hopefully it can fast-stabilize once released, because of all the testing and work that is going in now, before mainlin

Re: Help ! "btrfs check" looping recursive

2016-04-14 Thread Duncan
cognize the bug and tell you to try a later/earlier version, or if not, you very well may prompt a new patch, possibly after some further debugging.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your ma

Re: enospace regression in 4.4

2016-04-12 Thread Duncan
nd description for true (1)). That even a balance with -dusage=0 is actually failing, not just completing without doing anything as might be expected, is strange indeed. With a bit of luck that's a strong hint to the devs as to what has actually gone wrong and how to fix it. -- Duncan

Re: btrfstune -u makes filesystem unmountable

2016-04-10 Thread Duncan
u're following kernel recommendations, will ensure that you don't get /too/ far behind with userspace as well, since the version numbers are synced and a userspace release of a particular series tends to come a week or so after the corresponding kernel series .0 release. So 4.4 is gr

Re: btrfs raid1 degraded does not mount or fsck

2016-04-09 Thread Duncan
in the specific details, but as I explained above, btrfs now requires a particular number of devices with writable unallocated space in ordered to allocate new chunks of the corresponding raid level, two devices for raid1, for instance. If there's not enough devices with unallocated free s

Re: Missing device handling (was: 'unable to mount btrfs pool...')

2016-04-09 Thread Duncan
s either the btrfs device ID or as missing-N), and the status of the device being detectable by whether it's a symlink to a devices tree device (device online) or a subdir (device offline). The per-filesystem devices-losable, fs-status, and leave-be files could be added to the existing syf

Re: 4.4.0 - no space left with >1.7 TB free space left

2016-04-08 Thread Duncan
h one, but I follow release or development, not stable, and don't know what stable's current status is. If it gets to stable, and it wasn't for a bug introduced /after/ 4.4, it should eventually get into 4.4, as that's an LTS kernel. But it might take awhile, as the above dis

Re: unable to mount btrfs pool even with -oro,recovery,degraded, unable to do 'btrfs restore'

2016-04-06 Thread Duncan
data on now out of regular service devices... I expect I could recover most of it, and what I couldn't I'd simply do without. > Thank you for explaining the process. =:^) FWIW... My dad was a teacher before he retired. As he always said, the best way to learn something, even better

Re: unable to mount btrfs pool even with -oro,recovery,degraded, unable to do 'btrfs restore'

2016-04-06 Thread Duncan
on the page. If that's beyond your technical abilities or otherwise doesn't work, you may be able to use some of the advanced options of btrfs check and btrfs rescue to help, but I've never tried that myself and you'll be better off with help from someone else, because unlike rest

Re: [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: do not write corrupted metadata blocks to disk

2016-04-06 Thread Duncan
prevent this ideal from being reality in more cases than we'd like, tho the filesystem is in general stable enough for many to use daily, as many including myself do, as long as they have backups just in case, and their world won't end if they actually have to use them. -- Duncan - List repli

Re: Scrub priority, am I using it wrong?

2016-04-04 Thread Duncan
Gareth Pye posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:45:11 +1000 as excerpted: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> CPU bound, 0% IOWait even at idle IO priority, in addition to the >> hundreds of M/s values per thread/device, here. You OTOH are sh

Re: Scrub priority, am I using it wrong?

2016-04-04 Thread Duncan
Gareth Pye posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:44:05 +1000 as excerpted: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> 1) It appears btrfs scrub start's -c option only takes numeric class, >> so try -c3 instead of -c idle. > > > Do

Re: [PATCH 00/13 v3] Introduce device state 'failed', Hot spare and Auto replace

2016-04-04 Thread Duncan
m much the wiser on what copy-back actually entails. =:^) Tho it seems I was correct in the one aspect, currently ENotImplemented, even if my idea of what you were asking to be implemented was totally and completely off-the-wall wrong. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &q

Re: Scrub priority, am I using it wrong?

2016-04-04 Thread Duncan
.00 % btrfs scrub start -c3 /p CPU bound, 0% IOWait even at idle IO priority, in addition to the hundreds of M/s values per thread/device, here. You OTOH are showing under 20 M/s per thread/device on spinning rust, with an IOWait near 90%, thus making it IO bound. -- Duncan - List repli

Re: btrfsck: backpointer mismatch (and multiple other errors)

2016-04-04 Thread Duncan
sad, but in a majority proprietary or at best don't-care market... > I'm also seeing multi_zone_error_rate on my spinning rust. > According to smartctl health check and smartctl extended selftest, > there's no problems at all - and the smart error log is empty. There has

Re: [PATCH 00/13 v3] Introduce device state 'failed', Hot spare and Auto replace

2016-04-03 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Mon, 04 Apr 2016 04:45:16 + as excerpted: > Kai Krakow posted on Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:00:43 +0200 as excerpted: > >> Does this also implement "copy-back" - thus, it returns the hot-spare >> device to global hot-spares when the failed device has

Re: [PATCH 00/13 v3] Introduce device state 'failed', Hot spare and Auto replace

2016-04-03 Thread Duncan
s better than what is currently available (no automated spare handling at all), and an implementation must start somewhere, so as long as it's designed to be improved and extended with the missing features over time, as has been indicated, it's a reasonable first-implementation. --

Re: btrfsck: backpointer mismatch (and multiple other errors)

2016-04-03 Thread Duncan
from the other copy, crashing btrfs and the system, thus requiring more frequent scrubs than would otherwise be required -- I ran into this too, but didn't realize it only triggered on compressed content and was thus a specific bug, and simply attributed it to btrfs not yet being fully stable

Re: btrfsck: backpointer mismatch (and multiple other errors)

2016-04-02 Thread Duncan
the same spot) or different, and whether putting the file in a different subdir or using a different name for it matters at all. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Ri

Re: Another ENOSPC situation

2016-04-02 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:43:46 -0600 as excerpted: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> Marc Haber posted on Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:40:29 +0200 as excerpted: > >>> [4/502]mh@swivel:~$ sudo btrfs fi usage / O

Re: Another ENOSPC situation

2016-04-01 Thread Duncan
kup if it's worth backing up, so you shouldn't really need to worry about that step unless you want to freshen up your backup, and can simply do the mkfs and restore steps. Depending on how deep into -musage= and -dusage= you have to go, and how long it takes on your spinning rust, it

Re: "/tmp/mnt.", and not honouring compression

2016-03-31 Thread Duncan
e being before the earliest supported 3.18 LTS kernel, let alone comparable to your current 4.2 kernel or the 4.4 LTS upgrade or 4.1 LTS downgrade that would be recommended on the LTS track, or 4.4 or 4.5 on the current track. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every n

Re: [PATCH v2] Btrfs: fix file/data loss caused by fsync after rename and new inode

2016-03-31 Thread Duncan
way, apparent typo: s/Node code/No code/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: attempt to mount after crash during rebalance hard crashes server

2016-03-29 Thread Duncan
he data=writeback default that got reiserfs its bad stability reputation) it has in my own experience been incredibly stable, even on systems with hardware issues that made most filesystems (including a then much less stable and mature btrfs) unworkable. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML m

Re: Raid 0 setup doubt.

2016-03-28 Thread Duncan
Jose Otero posted on Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:30:56 +0200 as excerpted: > Duncan, you are right. I have 8 GB of RAM, and the most memory intensive > thing I'll be doing is a VM for Windows. Now I double boot, but rarely > go into Win, only to play some game occasionally. So, I think I&

Re: Compression causes kernel crashes if there are I/O or checksum errors (was: RE: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:5519 when hot-removing device in RAID-1)

2016-03-28 Thread Duncan
in the first place. > Do any devs do regular regression testing for these sorts of edge cases > once they come up? (i.e. this problem won't come back, will it?) As should (now) be obvious from the above, yes, definitely. Most patches to specific bugs also include fstests (originall

Re: Raid 0 setup doubt.

2016-03-28 Thread Duncan
r*-based mechanisms. I'd certainly imagine the Snowden's of the world will be doing that sort of thing, among the multitude of security options they must take. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the

Re: Compression causes kernel crashes if there are I/O or checksum errors (was: RE: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:5519 when hot-removing device in RAID-1)

2016-03-28 Thread Duncan
ward increasing btrfs raid1 robustness and will definitely be a noticeable step on the journey toward production-ready, for sure, and now that you've nailed it down so nicely, a fix should be quickly forthcoming. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program

Re: Raid 0 setup doubt.

2016-03-28 Thread Duncan
says always swap out instead of dumping cache; set to 0 it says always dump cache to keep apps from swapping; the default is normally 60, IIRC. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master.&qu

Re: Raid 0 setup doubt.

2016-03-27 Thread Duncan
simply curious and read some developer-targeted stuff anyway, even if you don't claim to actually be one. --- [1] Single-device suspend-image: There are ways around this that involve complex hoop-jumping in the initr* before the image is reloaded, but at least here, I prefer to avoid that

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-27 Thread Duncan
Martin Steigerwald posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:10:07 +0200 as excerpted: > On Freitag, 4. März 2016 12:31:44 CEST Duncan wrote: >> Dāvis Mosāns posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:39:12 +0200 as excerpted: >> > 2016-03-03 6:57 GMT+02:00 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: >>

Re: RAID-1 refuses to balance large drive

2016-03-25 Thread Duncan
Henk! I'll have to remember this as it's a very clever and rather useful method-tool to have in the ol' admin toolbox (aka brain). =:^) I only wish I had thought of it, as it sure seems clear... now that you described it! Greatly appreciated, in any case! =:^) -- Duncan - L

Re: Possible Raid Bug

2016-03-25 Thread Duncan
eady be applying it to their shipped versions as it's certainly a fix worth having. I'll simply refer you to previous discussion on the list for the patch, as that's where I'd have to look for it if I needed it myself before it gets mainlined. -- Duncan - List replies pre

Re: Possible Raid Bug

2016-03-25 Thread Duncan
u build a kernel with those patches to see if that alone fixes it, before possibly having you try various debugging patches to hone in on the problem, if it doesn't, so he can hopefully duplicate the problem himself, and ultimately come up with a fix. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. N

Re: Aw: cannot repair raid6 volume rescue zero-log crashed

2016-03-25 Thread Duncan
trouble, either of the backup if you knew the risk, or of the research to know the risk in the first place. Thus, you can be happy at saving that hassle which you defined to be of more value than your data, even if the data itself ends up being unrecoverable. So either way you save what was of

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: mkfs: allow DUP on multidev fs, only warn

2016-03-24 Thread Duncan
o in the commit comment... What filesystems other than btrfs allow DUP? =:^) It's correct in the posting subject. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman --

Re: RAID-1 refuses to balance large drive

2016-03-23 Thread Duncan
those backups, then by definition it's not worth the hassle, and starting over with a fresh filesystem is all three of (1) less hassle, (2) a chance to take advantage of newer filesystem options that weren't available when you first created the existing filesystem, and (3) a clean star

Re: RAID-1 refuses to balance large drive

2016-03-23 Thread Duncan
e, but I'd hope it'd only appear sometime later, after another device upgrade or two, at least. Of course, that's assuming it's either this bug, or another one that's fixed by starting over with newly created filesystem with all currently intended devices included in t

Re: RAID-1 refuses to balance large drive

2016-03-23 Thread Duncan
ll userspace does is call the appropriate kernel code to do the actual work. So the problem here is almost certainly kernel. Meanwhile, I have an idea of what /might/ be your balance problem, but I want to cover it in a separate reply. Suffice it to say here that the news isn't great, if this

Re: overlay file to test btrfs repairs

2016-03-22 Thread Duncan
evice-path blacklist, because device paths are routinely symlinked. I guess that's obvious from a kernel dev perspective, but perhaps not so much from an admin-user perspective, where the device-path /is/ often considered the device. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &

Re: overlay file to test btrfs repairs

2016-03-21 Thread Duncan
e Problem FAQ is the first one that occurs to me) in the btrfs wiki could be quite useful, to many. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe

Re: Btrfsck memory usage reduce idea

2016-03-21 Thread Duncan
ng than the other, fixes to one might not carry over to the other, etc. Tho as you suggest, possibly with a transition period during which both implementations are available, to work out any differences in results and/ or dramatically worse runtime cases. Thanks. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies pref

Re: unable to mount btrfs partition, please help :(

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
ity. Either a still stabilizing filesystem like btrfs works for them and they don't need code that mature and stable after all, or they probably shouldn't be using btrfs in the first place. Which again is where that research I mentioned above comes in... if their data is valuable enoug

Re: Snapshots slowing system

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
snapshot, there. You need a backup to recover in that case. Similarly in the case of an electrical problem, robbery of the machine, or fire, since both/all devices in a raid1 will be affected together. If you want to be able to recover your data in that case, better have a real backup, prefe

Re: btrfs receive hangs in "uninterruptible sleep"

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
ll. So please update to a 4.1 kernel or so, and a similar userspace, try again, and see if you still have the problem. Alternatively, if you're relying on your distro for support, rely on your distro, as we'll do what we can to support older versions here, but when there's prob

Re: Stupid (?) Idea about extent lifetimes.

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
ood ideas, it might take quite some time (over five years) to actually be implemented. So don't get your hopes up for anything too immediate, or even intermediate term (2-5 years out), unless you get extremely lucky and the devs see it as a way to implement something they already are worki

Re: Major HDD performance degradation on btrfs receive

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
ary to get up to speed with the code and can work with the other devs in terms of timing, etc. But that will definitely take significant time even if you do it, and the alternating backup solution can be put to use as soon as you can get another device plugged in and setup. =:^) -- Duncan - List r

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: add stat check in open_ctree_fs_info

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
dereference symlinks before doing this check? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs

Re: recovery problem raid5

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
(Of course, the wiki has a short user-targeted description of what changed in each btrfs-progs release as well, and I could look it up there if wanted to, but so can you, and I'm using the older raid1, not parity- raid, so I don't have the direct personal interest in that info that

Re: Incompat features: raid56 ... when creating a RAID6?

2016-03-19 Thread Duncan
privately if you'd like. Tho if you're familiar at all with news and have a client to use on news.gmane.org, or simply have lynx around and can follow the link above in it, you can find and grab the news article for yourself. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &quo

Re: Why we always balance system chunk alone with metadata?

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
s. The --force requirement for -s /does/ encourage people not to touch it at all, separately, and there could be very good reasons to normally treat system as metadata and process them as a combined unit, but even then, it seems very odd to me to expose -s on its own, even if --force is requir

Re: Blocks changed since previous snapshot of subvolume

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
t this is precisely the information that btrfs send -p provides. If you can strip the changes themselves out and what's left is either human readable or can be processed to human readable, then it should be exactly what you're after, the changed blocks, for data and metadata both. --

Re: [4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
Once you have all those extra data and metadata chunks removed, you can shrink the filesystem, then the partition it's on, and let the ssd firmware have the now unpartitioned space. Only thing is I don't know a tool to actually trim the now free space, and am not sure whether btrfs resize

Re: [4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
Ole Langbehn posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:33:46 +0100 as excerpted: > Duncan, > > thanks for your extensive answer. > > On 17.03.2016 11:51, Duncan wrote: >> Ole Langbehn posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:45:28 +0100 as excerpted: >> >> Have you tried the autodef

Re: Snapshots slowing system

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
at I rebooted, and I attributed the one-off to something else. But with no other attributes indicating issues, I remain clueless as to what might have happened and why that 1-worst, particularly so given the 0 threshold for that attribute and that it's an old-age indicator rather than a fa

Re: Snapshots slowing system

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
al good or to stay away from, in ordered to narrow down the search a bit, so this was really helpful, particularly the Crucial bit as I already know Intels aren't realistically in my price range. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a mas

Re: Snapshots slowing system

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
Pete posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:16:50 + as excerpted: > On 03/18/2016 09:17 AM, Duncan wrote: >> So btrfs raid1 has data integrity and repair features that aren't >> available on normal raid1, and thus is highly recommended. >> >> But, raid1 /does/

Re: btrfs error

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
above and try there, reporting appropriate version numbers if the problem still exists, or ask your distro for the support it offers on btrfs on older code, if indeed it does offer that support. As I said, only extremely limited and general help, not specific to your problem at all, but it'

Re: [PATCH v7 01/20] btrfs: dedup: Introduce dedup framework and its header

2016-03-15 Thread Duncan
of dupe are surely why I have such a personal negative reaction to dedupe. But precedent and current usage being what they are... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richar

Re: Snapshots slowing system

2016-03-15 Thread Duncan
pete posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2016 23:03:52 + as excerpted: > [Duncan wrote...] >>pete posted on Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:01:17 + as excerpted: >>> >>> Subvolumes are mounted with the following options: >>> autodefrag,relatime,compress=lzo,subvol=> &

Re: dedup and receive -p

2016-03-14 Thread Duncan
ure if you didn't write what you actually intended, or if either you or I misunderstood something somewhere along the line. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard S

Re: New file system with same issue (was: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work)

2016-03-13 Thread Duncan
Marc Haber posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:05:37 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 05:12:35PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> Marc Haber posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:58:10 +0100 as excerpted: >> > I see the same metadata spread as with the old filesystem in btrfs fi >&g

Re: New file system with same issue (was: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work)

2016-03-13 Thread Duncan
y case. If you know your ssd isn't one of the deduping ones (as I do, here), you can of course overrule that by specifying modes at mkfs.btrfs time. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is you

Re: parent transid verify failed on snapshot deletion

2016-03-13 Thread Duncan
the filesystem away after I recovered what I needed, even if it did appear to work successfully. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from t

Re: [PATCH v7 01/20] btrfs: dedup: Introduce dedup framework and its header

2016-03-13 Thread Duncan
akes little sense to me either. So only because it's already in use in kernel code, but if this /were/ the original kernel code... So I definitely understand your confusion, Qu, and have the same personal preference even as a native English speaker. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred

Re: parent transid verify failed on snapshot deletion

2016-03-12 Thread Duncan
backup yet, until that verification is done), just in case, and then even in the worst-case scenario, btrfs check --repair can't do more than inconvenience you a bit if it makes the problem worse instead of fixing it, since you have current backups and will only need to blow away the f

Re: Snapshots slowing system

2016-03-12 Thread Duncan
all full-speed data limits, I can't switch to cell for data, and it's simply not cost effective for voice when I can get full US phone coverage at no additional cost for what amounts to $2.50/mo.). But FWIW, if you've not already discovered it, plug in phone autocorrect on youtube

Re: btrfs and containers

2016-03-10 Thread Duncan
ssues. Which is definitely another reason not to consider btrfs fully stabilized, until that sort of thing gets sorted. Personally, I'd say just require superuser privs (and/or appropriate filecaps and/or SEL security labels) to create them as well, and avoid the whole problem. Yes, it'l

Re: dstat shows unexpected result for two disk RAID1

2016-03-10 Thread Duncan
d with the crypto patches. Call me a conspiracy nut, but don't be too surprised if someone's introducing some product with btrfs and encrypted subvolumes a year or 18 months from now... I know I won't be! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree progr

Re: dstat shows unexpected result for two disk RAID1

2016-03-09 Thread Duncan
e in say 6 months after that... that means we're looking at 2.5-3.5 years, perhaps longer, for it. So it's a known issue, yes, and on the roadmap, yes, but don't expect to see anything in the near (-2-year) future, more like intermediate (3-5) year future. In all honesty I

Re: btrfs and containers

2016-03-09 Thread Duncan
serving subvolume creation to superuser, because that's what's needed for listing and deletion. Because if not, I fear someone's going to take advantage of it in some way, perhaps, as with many DoS vulns, using it to deny critical resources as a way to simplify some other more crit

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-07 Thread Duncan
king and review wording. Regardless, I believe we've definitely established that while it's in the mainline kernel and is no longer experimental, there's still quite some warning there, contrary to Mark Habor's claim otherwise. And indeed, if following that warning literally,

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-07 Thread Duncan
east to me, which makes it a new and interesting bug. But not being a dev, that's about as far as I can take it. As CMurphy said, file a bug with all the various information, and hope the devs can replicate and trace it down. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

Re: btrfs raid

2016-03-06 Thread Duncan
han it should, and if that change in the number of devices is due to a device failure, that means a window during which additional device failures isn't covered also 10 times longer than it should be. Not good for the life of your data, for sure! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No H

Re: List missing files on a degraded read-only btrfs mount

2016-03-05 Thread Duncan
tadata such as ownership/perms/times, and symlinks, if you wish. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-05 Thread Duncan
fix, and might well appear to work fine for awhile, until BOOM! If there's a chance the filesystem in question was created by that bugged mkfs.btrfs, don't even try to fix it, just get what you can off it and recreate with a mkfs.btrfs without that bug, ASAP. -- Duncan - List replies p

Re: balance hangs and starts again on reboot

2016-03-05 Thread Duncan
sed it myself and I suspect I'd have to play around with the ranges a bit to figure out what numbers I should actually be supplying, as the filter descriptions in the manpage are somewhat vague on this point. (Anyone who knows where to actually find those numbers to plug in and/or has

Re: ENOSPC while creating snapshot

2016-03-04 Thread Duncan
minute commit times makes sense. But the given reason, a bare wish to reduce writes to the ssd, without support such as one of the above use-cases or something similar, really doesn't make sense, at least on its face. I'll agree with other posters on that. -- Duncan - List replies pre

Re: ENOSPC while creating snapshot

2016-03-04 Thread Duncan
AFAIK it should be in 4.5, which is getting close to release, so if you prefer to run 4.5-rcX to applying the patch yourself, that should work as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he i

Re: incomplete conversion to RAID1?

2016-03-04 Thread Duncan
Nicholas D Steeves posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:21:53 -0500 as excerpted: > Hi Duncan, > >> Of course either way assumes you don't run into some bug that will >> prevent removal of that chunk, perhaps exactly the same one that kept >> it from being removed durin

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-04 Thread Duncan
Dāvis Mosāns posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:39:12 +0200 as excerpted: > 2016-03-03 6:57 GMT+02:00 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: >> >> You're issue isn't the same, because all your space was allocated, >> leaving only 1 MiB unallocated, which isn't nor

Re: Stray 4k extents with slow buffered writes

2016-03-04 Thread Duncan
u're forcing sub-4K writes to storage at high priority so fast they have little chance to be consolidated into whole 4K block writes. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Ric

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix loading of orphan roots leading to BUG_ON

2016-03-02 Thread Duncan
ecommendation now that previously, even if it's still tempered with "but keep up with the list discussion and current on your kernels, and be aware there are still occasional corner-cases being worked out" as a caveat, which it should be said, is only slightly stronger than the general rec

Re: duplicate automounts with btrfs RAID1

2016-03-02 Thread Duncan
one or the other is out of sync with your needs. And if you find the distro's provision of btrfs support on that old a kernel sufficient, then you probably should be looking to your distro /for/ that support, as well, not here, as the level of support we can provide on such old kernels, p

Re: incomplete conversion to RAID1?

2016-03-02 Thread Duncan
ilar being posted to the list. But it does say zero usage, so by logic, either of the above balance commands should just remove it, actually pretty fast, as there's only a bit of accounting to do to remove it. And if they don't, then it /is/ a bug, but I'm guessing they will. =:^)

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-02 Thread Duncan
the bug refuse to allocate more, resulting in ENOSPC errors even when there's tens or hundreds of GiB of unallocated space, where you had only that 1 MiB. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your maste

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: fix loading of orphan roots leading to BUG_ON

2016-03-02 Thread Duncan
asonable quota stability? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of

Re: raid5

2016-03-02 Thread Duncan
Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:43:17 -0500 as excerpted: > On 2016-03-01 16:44, Duncan wrote: >> John Smith posted on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:24:04 +0100 as excerpted: >> >>> what is the status of btrfs raid5 in kernel 4.4? Thank you >> &

Re: raid5

2016-03-01 Thread Duncan
, /regardless/ of the filesystem and hardware that data is on. =:^) And with it either backed up or of only trivial value regardless, you don't have anything to lose, and even if raid56 mode /doesn't/ prove so stable for you after all, you can still rest easy knowing you aren't going t

Re: lxc-ls --fancy

2016-03-01 Thread Duncan
ago, well over a decade) and which I still use occasionally to look up files I don't have installed, as here, says lxc-ls is part of the lxc package, so that esearch candidate was correct. =:^) So, umm... while I'm not a doctor, perhaps making or keeping that appointment with your shrink

Re: Again, no space left on device while rebalancing and recipe doesnt work

2016-03-01 Thread Duncan
#x27;t have that problem to worry about. =:^) Oh, and btrfs quota management exacerbates the scaling issues dramatically. If you're using btrfs quotas, either half the max snapshots per filesystem recommendations, or reconsider whether you need quota functionality and turn it off, elim

Re: btrfs equivalent for zfs send -R

2016-02-28 Thread Duncan
Γιώργος Πάλλας posted on Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:17:38 +0200 as excerpted: > On 28/02/16 05:45, Duncan wrote: >> Γιώργος Πάλλας posted on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 13:45:03 +0200 >> as excerpted: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> If I have a btrfs subvolume 'subv

Re: btrfs check --repair is clean, but mount fails

2016-02-27 Thread Duncan
if it's "the way you like it, it!" for you. =:^) FWIW the fstab (5) manpage is the official documentation for it, but it says effectively what I said above. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use

Re: btrfs equivalent for zfs send -R

2016-02-27 Thread Duncan
r maybe it's simply a comment reserving the -r option?), but it doesn't work yet. However, it shouldn't be horribly difficult to hack up scripts that automate the otherwise manual recursive-send/receive for you, as I'd very likely do myself if I needed that functionality.

Re: upgrading kernel 3.13 to 3.16

2016-02-26 Thread Duncan
ystem more appropriate to your stability and support needs, which wouldn't be btrfs, as it's simply not a recommended choice, at least here on-list, if you're not planning to keep to the recommended last two kernel release series of either current or LTS. -- Duncan - List replies

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