Re: BTRFS and power loss ~= corruption?

2011-08-24 Thread Ahmed Kamal
AFAIK, ZFS compats lying disks by rolling back to the latest mountable uber block (i.e. the latest tree that was completely and successfully written to disk), does btrfs do something similar today ? On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Mitch Harder mitch.har...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Wed, Aug

Re: Blog: BTRFS is effectively stable

2010-10-30 Thread Ahmed Kamal
For example:  No device-yanking tests were done.  No power-cord yanking tests were done.  No device cables were yanked, shaken, or plugged/unplugged in rapid succession.  No dd the raw device underneath the filesystem while doing file I/O tests were done.  No recovery tests were done.

Re: kernel .32, btrfs-vol -b, why is metadata=data

2009-12-07 Thread Ahmed Kamal
In other words, btrfs-show could tell you that 19GB has been used, but df could say that 0 bytes are in use in the FS. Thanks Chris for the clarification. So despite saying 19G are used, I shouldn't be worried about running out of disk space, since these are just pre-allocated areas. Perhaps

kernel .32, btrfs-vol -b, why is metadata=data

2009-12-06 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi everyone, I'm running kernel 2.6.32-0.65.rc8.git5.fc13.x86_64. And I ran btrfs-vol -b, however for 10G of data I still have 9G of metadata! How do I fix this ? [r...@matrix ~]# btrfs-vol -b / ioctl returns 0 You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root [r...@matrix ~]# btrfs-show failed to read

Re: No space left, although 16G are there

2009-11-26 Thread Ahmed Kamal
left on device 61+0 records in 60+0 records out 62914560 bytes (63 MB) copied, 0.40297 s, 156 MB/s You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, I am running a Fedora-12 system (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64

Re: No space left, although 16G are there

2009-11-26 Thread Ahmed Kamal
More info [r...@matrix ~]# btrfs-show failed to read /dev/sr0 Label: none uuid: 06b0d069-b1cb-48c4-b26f-c5088a2360d2 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 9.99GB devid1 size 25.72GB used 25.72GB path /dev/dm-1 Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Ahmed Kamal

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Ahmed Kamal
 But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible. May I suggest the name ZbtrFS :) Sorry couldn't resist. On a more serious note though, is there any technical benefits that justify continuing to push money in btrfs

Re: single disk reed solomon codes

2008-08-04 Thread Ahmed Kamal
at 4:40 PM, Ahmed Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I definitely hope btrfs has this per-object copies property too. However, simply replicating the whole contents of a directory, wastes too much disk space, as opposed to RS codes Although adding redundancy mechanism will help increasing

Re: crash when mounting

2008-08-04 Thread Ahmed Kamal
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 02:12 +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote: Hi guys, I was playing on vmware with btrfs on complete disks /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}. Next I decided to use partitions, so I created /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}1 and used those, worked fine

crash when mounting

2008-08-02 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi guys, I was playing on vmware with btrfs on complete disks /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}. Next I decided to use partitions, so I created /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}1 and used those, worked fine! Afterward, I mistakenly re-ran an old command on the full disk ( mount -t btrfs -o subvol=. /dev/sdb /mnt/ ) notice this is

Re: Fix: btrfsctl arguments handling

2008-07-27 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Is this not a valid patch/fix ? Who do I have to bug to get this merged :) On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Ahmed Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably a more proper patch # HG changeset patch # Signed-Off-By: Ahmed Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Date 1216410189 -10800 # Node ID

single disk reed solomon codes

2008-07-19 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi, Since btrfs is someday going to be the default FS for Linux, and will be on so many single disk PCs and laptops, I was thinking it should be a good idea to insert some redundancy in single disk deployments. Of course it can help with disk failures, since it's obviously a single disk, but it

Re: single disk reed solomon codes

2008-07-19 Thread Ahmed Kamal
RS-based error correction for themselves. If we're unlucky in our choice of error correction, it might even be possible to end up in a situation where the only errors we'd _see_ are the ones which were uncorrectable. but since at the FS level, the redundancy would be at a different place,

Re: QA suite plans

2008-07-18 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Thanks man, I got myself a wiki account, and get btrfs up and running in a VM. Will start planning for the test suite On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Miguel Sousa Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ahmed Kamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, cool

btrfsctl -A not returning useful information

2008-07-18 Thread Ahmed Kamal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] progs-unstable]# btrfsctl -A /dev/sdb ioctl returns 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] progs-unstable]# btrfsctl -A /dev/sdc ioctl returns 0 /dev/sdb has a btrfs, while /dev/sdc is blank. What's that output supposed to mean ? Is it a bug ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

QA suite plans

2008-07-16 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi Team, I have been following the btrfs project since Chris announced it last year. I am happy to see v1.0 is planned in Q4. This is awesome, we can finally get something like ZFS on Linux. The project pace is nothing short of amazing. Thank you :) I notice the plans contain QA suite. I would