Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-22 Thread Duncan
Adrian Bastholm posted on Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:35:57 +0200 as excerpted: > Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. > Aabout "stable hardware/no lying hardware". I'm not running any raid > hardware, was planning on just software raid. three drives glued > together with "mkfs.btrfs -d raid5

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-20 Thread Remi Gauvin
On 2018-09-20 05:35 PM, Adrian Bastholm wrote: > Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. > Aabout "stable hardware/no lying hardware". I'm not running any raid > hardware, was planning on just software raid. three drives glued > together with "mkfs.btrfs -d raid5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd".

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:36 PM Adrian Bastholm wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. > Aabout "stable hardware/no lying hardware". I'm not running any raid > hardware, was planning on just software raid. Yep. I'm referring to the drives, their firmware, cables, logic board, its

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-20 Thread Adrian Bastholm
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Aabout "stable hardware/no lying hardware". I'm not running any raid hardware, was planning on just software raid. three drives glued together with "mkfs.btrfs -d raid5 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd". Would this be a safer bet, or would You recommend running

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Adrian Bastholm wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:44 PM Qu Wenruo wrote: > >> >> Then I strongly recommend to use the latest upstream kernel and progs >> for btrfs. (thus using Debian Testing) >> >> And if anything went wrong, please report asap to the mail

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-20 Thread Adrian Bastholm
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:44 PM Qu Wenruo wrote: > > Then I strongly recommend to use the latest upstream kernel and progs > for btrfs. (thus using Debian Testing) > > And if anything went wrong, please report asap to the mail list. > > Especially for fs corruption, that's the ghost I'm always

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-17 Thread Stefan K
> If your primary concern is to make the fs as stable as possible, then > keep snapshots to a minimal amount, avoid any functionality you won't > use, like qgroup, routinely balance, RAID5/6. > > And keep the necessary btrfs specific operations to minimal, like > subvolume/snapshot (and don't

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-17 Thread Qu Wenruo
On 2018/9/17 下午7:55, Adrian Bastholm wrote: >> Well, I'd say Debian is really not your first choice for btrfs. >> The kernel is really old for btrfs. >> >> My personal recommend is to use rolling release distribution like >> vanilla Archlinux, whose kernel is already 4.18.7 now. > > I just

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-17 Thread Adrian Bastholm
> Well, I'd say Debian is really not your first choice for btrfs. > The kernel is really old for btrfs. > > My personal recommend is to use rolling release distribution like > vanilla Archlinux, whose kernel is already 4.18.7 now. I just upgraded to Debian Testing which has the 4.18 kernel >

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Adrian Bastholm wrote: > Thanks for answering Qu. > >> At this timing, your fs is already corrupted. >> I'm not sure about the reason, it can be a failed CoW combined with >> powerloss, or corrupted free space cache, or some old kernel bugs. >> >> Anyway, the

Fwd: btrfs problems

2018-09-16 Thread Adrian Bastholm
... And also raid56 is still considered experimental, and has various problems if the hardware lies (like if some writes happen out of order or faster on some devices than others,and it's much harder to repair because the repair tools aren't raid56 feature complete).

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Adrian Bastholm wrote: > Hello all > Actually I'm not trying to get any help any more, I gave up BTRFS on > the desktop, but I'd like to share my efforts of trying to fix my > problems, in hope I can help some poor noob like me. There's almost no useful

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-16 Thread Qu Wenruo
On 2018/9/16 下午9:58, Adrian Bastholm wrote: > Hello all > Actually I'm not trying to get any help any more, I gave up BTRFS on > the desktop, but I'd like to share my efforts of trying to fix my > problems, in hope I can help some poor noob like me. > > I decided to use BTRFS after reading the

btrfs problems

2018-09-16 Thread Adrian Bastholm
Hello all Actually I'm not trying to get any help any more, I gave up BTRFS on the desktop, but I'd like to share my efforts of trying to fix my problems, in hope I can help some poor noob like me. I decided to use BTRFS after reading the ArsTechnica article about the next-gen filesystems, and

Re: Kernel Oops / btrfs problems

2017-10-26 Thread Liu Bo
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:05:48PM +0200, andreas.bt...@diezwickers.de wrote: > Hi, > > I've had problems with a btrfs filesystem on a usb disk. I made a > successfull backup of all data and created the filesystem from scratch. > I'm not able to restore all backuped data because of a kernel oops.

Kernel Oops / btrfs problems

2017-10-25 Thread andreas . btrfs
Hi, I've had problems with a btrfs filesystem on a usb disk. I made a successfull backup of all data and created the filesystem from scratch. I'm not able to restore all backuped data because of a kernel oops. The problem is reproducible. I've checked my RAM alreayd with memtest86 for 8h

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:38 AM, wrote: > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> covici posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:11 -0500 as excerpted: >> >> > Chris Murphy wrote: >> > >> >> If you can post the entire dmesg somewhere that'd be useful.

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread covici
Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:38 AM, wrote: > > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > > >> covici posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:11 -0500 as excerpted: > >> > >> > Chris Murphy wrote: > >> > > >>

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:22 PM, wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:38 AM, wrote: >> > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> > >> >> covici posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:11 -0500 as

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 1:02 PM, wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:22 PM, wrote: >> > Chris Murphy wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:38 AM,

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread covici
Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:22 PM, wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:38 AM, wrote: > >> > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> > > >> >>

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread covici
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > covici posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:11 -0500 as excerpted: > > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > > >> If you can post the entire dmesg somewhere that'd be useful. MUAs tend > >> to wrap that text and make it unreadable on list. I

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-26 Thread Duncan
covici posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:11 -0500 as excerpted: > Chris Murphy wrote: > >> If you can post the entire dmesg somewhere that'd be useful. MUAs tend >> to wrap that text and make it unreadable on list. I think the problems >> with your volume happened before

btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread covici
Hi. I created a file system using 4.3.1 version of btrfsprogs and have been using it for some three days. I have gotten the following errors in the log this morning: Dec 25 04:10:16 ccs.covici.com kernel: BTRFS (device dm-20): parent transid verify failed on 51776421888 wanted 4983 found 4981

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread Henk Slager
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:03 AM, wrote: > Hi. I created a file system using 4.3.1 version of btrfsprogs and have > been using it for some three days. I have gotten the following errors > in the log this morning: > Dec 25 04:10:16 ccs.covici.com kernel: BTRFS (device

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread Duncan
covici posted on Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:14:58 -0500 as excerpted: > Henk Slager wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:03 AM, wrote: >> > Hi. I created a file system using 4.3.1 version of btrfsprogs and >> > have been using it for some three days. I

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread covici
Chris Murphy wrote: > If you can post the entire dmesg somewhere that'd be useful. MUAs tend > to wrap that text and make it unreadable on list. I think the problems > with your volume happened before the messages, but it's hard to say. > Also, a generation of nearly

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread Chris Murphy
If you can post the entire dmesg somewhere that'd be useful. MUAs tend to wrap that text and make it unreadable on list. I think the problems with your volume happened before the messages, but it's hard to say. Also, a generation of nearly 5000 is not that new? On another thread someone said you

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread covici
Henk Slager wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:03 AM, wrote: > > Hi. I created a file system using 4.3.1 version of btrfsprogs and have > > been using it for some three days. I have gotten the following errors > > in the log this morning: > > Dec 25

Re: btrfs problems on new file system

2015-12-25 Thread covici
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > covici posted on Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:14:58 -0500 as excerpted: > > > Henk Slager wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:03 AM, wrote: > >> > Hi. I created a file system using 4.3.1 version of btrfsprogs and

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-26 Thread david grant
Thank you all for your help and in particular you cwillu (sounds strangely formal!). Yes, I can now boot into a snapshot but I thought it might be helpful to explain why I thought otherwise. I am totally anal about having backups of a current operating systems and using those for testing I

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-26 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [david grant] BUT I am still left with the problem that caused it for me: how do I backup (clone?) a btrfs file system with snapshots to another btrfs partition (apart from using dd). I just hope I don't get scolded again and told I am not up to it. I don't think you can conveniently

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-26 Thread David Pottage
On 26/11/10 10:11, Oystein Viggen wrote: What would be really awesome is some sort of btrfs-send program that handles all this the best way for you, but I don't think that exists (yet). User friendly tools will undoubtedly appear as btrfs is more used, but I guess it's still partly in the roll

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-26 Thread cwillu
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:40 AM, david grant d...@david-grant.com wrote: I am totally anal about having backups of a current operating systems and using those for testing I thought tat the best way to do this with btrfs was to rsync the file system to another partition but exclude all

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-24 Thread cwillu
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:32 AM, david grant d...@david-grant.com wrote: Hugo, you told me how to mount a snapshot. Thank you, that works but you didn't tell me how to boot into it. He also gave you the command to set the default subvolume/snapshot used if you don't provide one: btrfs

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-23 Thread david grant
Thank you all for your responses to my boot snapshot problem but it still exists. . Hugo, you told me how to mount a snapshot. Thank you, that works but you didn't tell me how to boot into it. Anthony, I really hoped that you had provided the answer using grub but all combinations of your

btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-22 Thread david grant
I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it. I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am I correct in thinking that currently: I. it is not possible to boot from a

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-22 Thread Hugo Mills
Hi, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:43AM +1100, david grant wrote: I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it. I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am I correct in

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-22 Thread Wenyi Liu
2010/11/23, david grant d...@david-grant.com: I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it. I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am I correct in thinking that

Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14

2010-11-22 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Wenyi Liu qingshen...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/23, david grant d...@david-grant.com: I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it. I am not sure if I have missed