Re: Which companies contribute to Btrfs?

2014-04-28 Thread Chester
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Corbet cor...@lwn.net wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:18:34 -0700 Marc MERLIN m...@merlins.org wrote: I writing slides about btrfs for an upcoming talk (at linuxcon) and I was trying to gather a list of companies that contribute code to btrfs. So I

dmesg filled with btrfs messages

2013-10-17 Thread Chester
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chester somethingsome2...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:51 PM Subject: dmesg filled with btrfs messages To: linux-btrfs linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org It's what looks like the same message repeated over and over again. Here's my dmesg: Pasted

Re: experimental raid5/6 code in git

2013-02-04 Thread Chester
The last argument should be the directory you want to clone into. Use '-b branch' to specify the branch you want to clone. I'm pretty sure you've compiled just the master branch of both linux-btrfs and btrfs-progs. On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Gareth Pye gar...@cerberos.id.au wrote: I felt

Re: btrfs volume suddenly becomes read-only

2012-07-10 Thread Chester
So, I got the sysq-w + the whole dmesg until crash 6[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset 6[0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu 5[0.00] Linux version 3.4.0-00091-gcb77fcd (root@navilaptop) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Gentoo 4.6.2-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.0) ) #1 SMP Thu Jun 21

Re: btrfs volume suddenly becomes read-only

2012-06-27 Thread Chester
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Josef Bacik jba...@fusionio.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:32:22AM -0600, Chester wrote: Hey Josef, the btrfsck was dirty. Here it is pasted inline. Ok, do btrfsck --repair on the device (the device must be unmounted) and hopefully it will fix

Re: btrfs volume suddenly becomes read-only

2012-06-26 Thread Chester
Problem still occurs.. With just a bittorrent client (downloading) + chrome running. This could also be related but, last night, I triggered a btrfs balance.. I'm not too sure whether the balance finished or not, because when I took a look at it this morning, it said no file or directory and told

Re: kernel got struck while scrubbing BTRFS with node- and leafsize 32768

2012-06-24 Thread Chester
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: [251818.022631] [ cut here ] [251818.022714] WARNING: at /media/data/mattems/src/linux-2.6-3.4.1/debian/build/source_amd64_none/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:4522 read_extent_buffer+0x43/0xf0

Re: Boot speed/mount time regression with 3.4.0-rc2

2012-04-11 Thread Chester
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: Hi, I have a system that's using a dracut-generated initramfs to mount a btrfs root. After upgrading to kernel 3.4.0-rc2 to test it out, I've noticed that the process of mounting the root filesystem takes much

Re: Create subvolume from a directory?

2012-03-27 Thread Chester
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Alex a...@bpmit.com wrote: Hi all, Just a quick question but can't find an obvious answer. Can I create/convert a existing (btrfs) directory into a subvolume? It would be very helpful when transferring 'partitions' into btrfs. I found a similar question

Re: immutable (WORM) file system

2012-03-12 Thread Chester
There's support for Read-only snapshots, so you might be able to use that with some clever scripting =\ On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Fong Vang sudoy...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if there's a plan to provide an option to make a BTRFS filesystem a WORM (write-one-read-many)?  So

Re: Set nodatacow per file?

2012-02-27 Thread Chester
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:54 AM, dima dole...@parallels.com wrote: Hello, Since several people asked to post the results, here they are. I tried raw virtio disk with and without -z -C set and also qcow2 virtio disk without -z -C set and did not notice any difference in performance at all -

Re: btrfs unmountable after failed suspend

2012-02-11 Thread Chester
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: Ok, its worth pointing out that you're just one bit away from proper ordering here.  While I'm testing out this code to fix key ordering, could you please run memtest86 on your machine? I ran memtest for a good 16

Re: Freeing space over reboot question

2012-02-09 Thread Chester
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Norbert Scheibner s...@gmx.net wrote: Glück Auf! I use now kernel 3.2. The filesystem was originally created under 2.6.39 on 1 whole hdd, mounted with noatime,nodiratime,inode_cache. I use it for backups: rsync the whole system to a subvolume, snapshot it and

Re: btrfs unmountable after failed suspend

2012-02-08 Thread Chester
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 06:10:15PM -0600, Chester wrote: This is dmesg mounted with -o ro,recovery [   20.957392] exe used greatest stack depth: 4920 bytes left [  145.340317] device label BtrfsLinux devid 1 transid

Re: btrfs unmountable after failed suspend

2012-02-08 Thread Chester
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:22:19PM -0600, Chester wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 06:10:15PM -0600, Chester wrote: This is dmesg mounted with -o

Re: btrfs unmountable after failed suspend

2012-02-08 Thread Chester
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Chester somethingsome2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:22:19PM -0600, Chester wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Feb

btrfs unmountable after failed suspend

2012-02-07 Thread Chester
Using stock kernel 3.2.0: I probably made several mistakes. 1. I'm using zcache which is still staging 2. Tried to suspend to RAM (probably bad with zcache enabled) 3. Using one unified btrfs volume 4. After failing to mount, tried several times to mount with -o recovery 5. Writecache enabled.

Re: Setting options permanently?

2012-01-27 Thread Chester
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Hadmut Danisch had...@danisch.de wrote: Hi, just a question: Mounting options for file systems are usually given on the command line or in /etc/fstab. Both do not work with mobile storage devices like usb hard disks, since they are either mounted

Re: btrfs filesystem df command oddly named?

2012-01-26 Thread Chester
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Wes anomaly...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering, Why is this command called 'df' when it reports total space and used space but not free space?  Wouldn't this be more aptly named 'btrfs filesystem du'  ? It's been my understanding that traditionally 'df' has

Re: Will BTRFS repair or restore data if corrupted?

2012-01-25 Thread Chester
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Waxhead waxh...@online.no wrote: Hi, From what I have read BTRFS does replace a bad copy of data with a known good copy (if it has one). Will BTRFS try to repair the corrupt data or will it simply silently restore the data without the user knowing that a file

Re: Extreme slowdown

2011-12-15 Thread Chester
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha l...@fajar.net wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Tobias tra...@robotech.de wrote: Hi all! My BTRFS-FS ist getting really slow. Reading is ok, writing is slow and deleting is horrible slow. There are many files and many links on the FS.

Re: Chrome brings whole system down

2011-10-24 Thread Chester
Just yesterday I can reproduce this reliably. There was no way to turn the system off other than to use the 'ol REISUB sysrq tricks. I decided to give it a try today, and it works somehow.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to

Re: defrag makes fragmentation worse

2011-10-11 Thread Chester
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Li Zefan l...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: This confirmed my speculation. I've fixed this bug a month ago, but the patch hasn't hitted mainline. You can try it out: http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfsm=131495014823121w=2 With this bug fixed, I think autodefrag won't

defrag makes fragmentation worse

2011-10-08 Thread Chester
Kernel 3.1-rc8 btrfs-progs-0.19 mount options: noatime,autodefrag (space_cache is enabled) There are snapshots present on the filesystem. When I do a btrfs fi defrag on a file, the file becomes much more fragmented. The end result can be a file with 20k times more fragments than before. Initially

Re: Honest timeline for btrfsck

2011-10-06 Thread Chester
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Jeff Putney jeffrey.put...@gmail.com wrote: No, in this case it means we're confident it will get rolled out. On Aug 18th confidence was high enough to declare a possible release that very day.  This confidence turned into 7 weeks of silence followed by

Re: Errors thrown up by btrfsck

2011-10-05 Thread Chester
I just dd every file on the filesystem and I got no error message in dmesg, so I don't even know if I should be worried or not. -- 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

Re: Low volume list ?

2011-09-01 Thread Chester
btrfsck status updates don't appear too often on the mailing list. But when they do, they end up in the btrfs wiki page anyway. That's where users like you and I should look. I like hanging out here just to see what's coming from upstream On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh

Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs updates

2011-05-27 Thread Chester
One question. Will the autodefrag option be snapshot aware? Would enabling this option double the amount of used space if there is a snapshot present? On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: Hi everyone, I always thought that I'd be retired and with my

Re: What are thoses [btrfs-cache-nnn] kernel threads ?

2011-05-19 Thread Chester
Out of curiosity, why isn't this done automatically as opposed to having to mount with the space_cache option? The space_cache option changes the disk format. Once enabled, it will be permanent. The mount option gives people an option of whether they want to enable space_cache.. I've been

Re: efficiency of btrfs cow

2011-03-23 Thread Chester
I'm not a developer, but I think it goes something like this: btrfs doesn't write the filesystem on the entire device/partition at format time, rather, it dynamically increases the size of the filesystem as data is used. That's why formating a disk in btrfs can be so fast. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at

Re: snapshot strange behaviour

2011-01-23 Thread Chester
Also, btrfs already has a utility to scan for subvolumes in a directory btrfs subvolume list /path On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli kreij...@libero.it wrote: On 01/23/2011 04:05 PM, Lubos Kolouch wrote: Goffredo Baroncelli, Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:17:13 +0100: Hi Lubos, On

Re: btrfs, broken design?

2011-01-20 Thread Chester
Btrfs has its own wiki page at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org which you may find more helpful than what is on wikipedia. 2011/1/20 Benoît Thiébault benoit.thieba...@gmail.com: Thanks for your answer Le 20 janv. 2011 à 22:20, Chris Mason a écrit : There was a bug fixed as part of that

Re: Root fs on raid1

2010-11-17 Thread Chester
You might need to build an initramfs image for your kernel to mount, to help mount your btrfs filesystem. You may want to read Gentoo's guide for initramfs http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:14 AM, ad...@prnet.org wrote: Hi, I have read that for using raid1

Re: btrfs filesystem df not working

2010-10-16 Thread Chester
I think that means that the fixes in the newer versions will also be included in the previous versions. On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos artafi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at

Re: Horrible btrfs performance on cold cache

2010-10-11 Thread Chester
I think I read/heard somewhere that snapshots can cause pretty bad fragmentation, because it causes your system to write changes to files to random locations on the disk, leaving the original inodes intact.. For that reason, I have replaced the directories ~/.config/chromium , /var , /usr/portage

Re: Can you please define snapshot and subvolume?

2010-10-07 Thread Chester
If I were to use the defrag option in btrfsctl, $ btrfsctl -d / would it also defragment the subvolumes under the root? -- 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

The The status of btrfsck thread

2010-08-26 Thread Chester
Hi, I'm aware that btrfs doesn't have a functioning fsck tool that fixes errors. I was just wondering (I'm sure many are, also) if there is a working btrfsck somewhere in the pipeline. If there is some sort of rough estimate to when it'll be available, please state it here. If you're not

Re: The The status of btrfsck thread

2010-08-26 Thread Chester
, Aug 26, 2010 at 03:43:52AM -0500, Chester wrote: Hi, I'm aware that btrfs doesn't have a functioning fsck tool that fixes errors. I was just wondering (I'm sure many are, also) if there is a working btrfsck somewhere in the pipeline. If there is some sort of rough estimate to when it'll