Re: What are the linux kernel versions incompatibilities with btrfs?

2014-02-27 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, I can't give you a specific answer to your question. But because btrfs is still under heavy development you shouldn't use it with those old kernels at all in my oppinion. You should never be more than one version away from the current stable kernel. Regards, Felix On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at

Re: Receive on same subvolume

2014-02-03 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi Matthew, I'm not sure what you are trying to achive. Couldn't you simply do another snapshot of the subvolume? I don't understand why you want to use send/receive on the same subvolume to be honest. Regards, Felix On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Matthew Lai m...@matthewlai.ca wrote:

Re: btrfs send 3.11 vs 3.12

2014-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, please take a look into this thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg30573.html I had a similiar problem and got the answer + a fix from the list. Regards, Felix On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Miguel Negrão miguel.negrao-li...@friendlyvirus.org wrote: Em 23-01-2014 14:19,

Re: Problems with incremental send/receive

2014-01-10 Thread Felix Blanke
...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: Hello Felix, On 01/10/2014 03:26 PM, Felix Blanke wrote: Hi Wang, here are the versioninformation: server log # btrfs version Btrfs v3.12-dirty server log # uname -a Linux server.home 3.12.6-hardened-r3 #1 SMP Thu Jan 2 13:16:48 CET 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU

Re: Problems with incremental send/receive

2014-01-09 Thread Felix Blanke
more friendly. Thanks, Wang On 01/09/2014 06:04 AM, Felix Blanke wrote: Hi List, My backup stopped working and I can't figure out why. I'm using send/receive with the -p switch for incremental backups using the last snapshot as a parent snapshot for sending only the changed data

Re: Problems with incremental send/receive

2014-01-09 Thread Felix Blanke
? Regards, Felix On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wang, thank you for your answer. I am using the latest btrfs-progs with the 3.12 kernel. I don't have access to the machine right now (it looks like it crashed :/) but I can send the exact

Problems with incremental send/receive

2014-01-08 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi List, My backup stopped working and I can't figure out why. I'm using send/receive with the -p switch for incremental backups using the last snapshot as a parent snapshot for sending only the changed data. The problem occurs using my own backup script. After I discovered the problem I did a

Re: RADI6 questions

2013-06-02 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, fyi: Raid5/6 hit mainline in 3.9, with 3.8 you will not be able to use those raid levels. Regards, Felix On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:07:53PM -0700, ronnie sahlberg wrote: Hi List, I have a filesystem that is spanning

Problem with btrfs send/receive

2013-05-23 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi everyone, I was trying the new send/receive feature today but can't make it work. These are the commands I was using: btrfs subvol snap -r /mnt/data1/@downloads/ /mnt/data1/snapshots/testsnap btrfs send /mnt/data1/snapshots/testsnap | btrfs receive /mnt/data1/snapshots/testreceive/ This

Re: Problem with btrfs send/receive

2013-05-23 Thread Felix Blanke
sbehr...@giantdisaster.de wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:59 +0200, Felix Blanke wrote: Hi everyone, I was trying the new send/receive feature today but can't make it work. These are the commands I was using: btrfs subvol snap -r /mnt/data1/@downloads/ /mnt/data1/snapshots/testsnap btrfs send

Re: Help with recover data

2012-05-29 Thread Felix Blanke
On 5/30/12 12:14 AM, Maxim Mikheev wrote: Hi Everyone, I recently decided to use btrfs. It works perfectly for a week even under heavy load. Yesterday I destroyed backups as cannot afford to have ~10TB in backups. I decided to switch on Btrfs because it was announced that it stable already I

Re: kernel 3.3.4 damages filesystem (?)

2012-05-08 Thread Felix Blanke
On 5/8/12 3:13 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Clemens, Du meintest am 08.05.12: But where's the gain? If a disk fails I have a lot of tools for repairing an ext2/3/4 system. Nope, when a disk in your ext4 raid0 array fails, you are just as doomed. Why should I use RAID0 with a bundle of

Re: kernel 3.3.4 damages filesystem (?)

2012-05-08 Thread Felix Blanke
On 5/8/12 6:53 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Felix, Du meintest am 08.05.12: Why should I use RAID0 with a bundle of ext2/3/4? Mounting on/in the directory tree does the job. Nobody told you that you should do it. What EVERYBODY here is telling you: The problem you have right now would

Re: kernel 3.3.4 damages filesystem (?)

2012-05-08 Thread Felix Blanke
On 5/8/12 8:29 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Felix, Du meintest am 08.05.12: As I've written many times: I want a system for my video collection which allows adding a bigger disk deleting/removing a smaller disk with simple commands. btrfs seems to be able to do that

Re: kernel 3.3.4 damages filesystem (?)

2012-05-07 Thread Felix Blanke
On 5/7/12 6:36 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Hugo, Du meintest am 07.05.12: It's dead - R.I.P. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I don't think we can point the finger at btrfs here. a) you know what to do with the bearer? b) I like such errors - completely independent, but

Re: LABEL only 1 device

2012-02-27 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi Helmut, are you sure that 'mkfs.ext2/3/4 -L label /dev/xxx' doesn't create a new fs? Afaik to change a label of a given (ext2/3/4) filesystem you should use tune2fs. I don't have a linux system available right now but this is what I would expect and what would make a lot more sense

Re: support for Oracle db consistent backups with btrfs snapshoting?

2012-02-20 Thread Felix Blanke
backup mode and then create a snapshot. I'm not sure if there is a way to integrate RMAN backups with btrfs snapshots. Maybe an oracle expert could help out. Kind regards, Felix Blanke On 2/20/12 4:29 PM, Shyam Prasad N wrote: On 02/20/2012 07:49 PM, Andrew Henry wrote: Will there be support

Re: Btrfs out of inodes becomes corrupt

2012-02-08 Thread Felix Blanke
. There are new bugs in 3.2, but on the other hand there are hundreds of fixed bugs, new features etc. Especially using alpha releases of software without upgrading whenever there is a chance to seems very strange to me :) Kind regards, Felix Blanke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Encryption implementation like ZFS?

2011-12-31 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, I tried my SSD with luks and it is damn slow. I don't have any numbers for i/o per second but the read/write speed was 50% of the speed without luks. If you want encryption and speed you have to use loopaes. Unfortunetly you have to patch your util-linux for that. The advantage of

Re: Rename BTRfs to MuchSlowerFS ?

2011-09-15 Thread Felix Blanke
I'm using btrfs since one year now and it's quite fast. I don't feel any differences to other filesystems. Never tried a benchmark but for my daily work it's nice. I also never had any issues with the memory. Imho nowadays memory isn't a problem at all in desktop computers. I bought 8gb of

Re: Kernel Modules

2011-07-10 Thread Felix Blanke
Did you ever say something positive about btrfs? :D All I read from in the last months is complaining about btrfs. In this case it was his fault because he forget to update the fstab. Im pretty sure it was also your fault when you screwed up your 2.6.38.5 kernel... I'm sorry but it seems that

Re: Kernel Modules

2011-07-10 Thread Felix Blanke
You don't understood me. Ofc the developer need bug reports and all that stuff. But it's the way youre doing it. Imho a lot of your mails sounds like the only goal of them are to punish btrfs. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, then I'm sorry. I'll be quite about this topic now. I've

Re: Kernel Modules

2011-07-10 Thread Felix Blanke
Well, the mail still says the truth :) On 7/10/11 11:57 AM, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Felix, Du meintest am 10.07.11: I'll be quiet about this topic now. I've to admit that I was a little bit drunk yesterday. Sorry again! Don't drink and write! Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe

Re: btrfs-control: no such device

2011-04-08 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, nope. All patches to the btrfs-progs aren't yet in the git. I think it's up to chris to push all the patches. Regards, Felix Am 08 Apr 2011 14:00:00 +0200 schrieb Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de: Hallo, linux-btrfs, when I run balance or delete and /dev/btrfs-control doesn't exist

Re: LOOP_GET_STATUS(64) truncates pathnames to 64 chars (was Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!)

2011-02-11 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, are you sure that patch is in the kernel? I'm using 2.6.37 and don't have those attribues in my /sys. Felix On 10. February 2011 - 13:29, Petr Uzel wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:29:27 +0100 From: Petr Uzel petr.u...@suse.cz To: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org Cc: Felix Blanke

Re: LOOP_GET_STATUS(64) truncates pathnames to 64 chars (was Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!)

2011-02-11 Thread Felix Blanke
Yeah, for me its loop-aes. Ah ok, didn't knew that it replaces that whole loop thing :) Felix On Feb 11, 2011 8:32 PM, Milan Broz mb...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/11/2011 08:23 PM, Felix Blanke wrote: What do you mean with configured? I'm using loop devices with loop aes, and I've looked

Re: Error mounting multi-device fs after restart

2011-02-08 Thread Felix Blanke
I can't help you with your problem, but: It is a really really really bad idea to store data without a backup on a filesystem that is still in some kind of alpha stadium (don't understand me wrong, I like btrfs and you guys do a really good job. But the lack of a working fsck keeps btrfs in

Re: Strangeness on btrfs balance..

2011-02-05 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, balancing 1TB of data can take 1 day. So I don't think there is something wrong just because the third device got no io. Just wait some more hours. I don't know how the balancing does his work, but it is possible that it first balance throught the old devices and then add the new one or

Re: LOOP_GET_STATUS(64) truncates pathnames to 64 chars (was Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!)

2011-01-26 Thread Felix Blanke
@users.sourceforge.net address, or linux-cry...@vger.kernel.org Felix Blanke wrote: If I'm using the unpatched losetup (from util-linux-ng) and looping a device like /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-22A7B2_WD-WCASY7780706-part3 it is using readlink to track down the link to e.g. /dev/sda3. But if I'm

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
On 24. January 2011 - 13:13, Hugo Mills wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:13:41 + From: Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk To: Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com Cc: kreij...@inwind.it, Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?! Mail

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:53:05PM +0100, Felix Blanke wrote: On 24. January 2011 - 13:13, Hugo Mills wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Felix Blanke wrote: Hi, you were talking about the LOOP_GET_STATUS function. I'm not quite sure where does it came from

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:29:36PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: If, instead, the initial losetup call tracked the symlinks back to the original device node (i.e. something like /dev/sdb3, or /dev/mapper/ruthven-btest in my example), then the name that's stored in the kernel would be

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
util-linux-2.18-r1 and still no symlink following. I'll ask for that at the kernel mailing list in the next days. If your (Hugo) util-linux doesn't include any kind of patches that behaviour is really strange. Felix On 24. January 2011 - 15:44, Felix Blanke wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:44

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
if there are any gentoo-patches applied during the build. Felix On 24. January 2011 - 17:00, Hugo Mills wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:24 + From: Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk To: Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?! Mail

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-24 Thread Felix Blanke
posting about this in the btrfs-list. Thanks for your help! Felix On 24. January 2011 - 22:04, Felix Blanke wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:04:54 +0100 From: Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com To: Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug

Re: [PATCH 2/2] add detailed help messages to btrfs command

2011-01-23 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, no :) All those patches need to be applied to the current git. I'm sure there will be an e-mail if all those patches are applied. Regards, Felix On 23. January 2011 - 15:26, Helmut Hullen wrote: Date: 23 Jan 2011 15:26:00 +0100 From: Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de To:

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-23 Thread Felix Blanke
that bug is? Regards, Felix On 23. January 2011 - 23:02, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:02:16 +0100 From: Goffredo Baroncelli kreij...@libero.it To: Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk, Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com CC: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-23 Thread Felix Blanke
a '*' :) Do you think that will solve the problem? I'll try it tomorrow. Regards, Felix On 23. January 2011 - 23:27, Hugo Mills wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:27:20 + From: Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk To: kreij...@inwind.it Cc: Hugo Mills hugo-l...@carfax.org.uk, Felix Blanke

Re: [PATCH] Add -v option to btrfsctl to control verbosity: Be quiet unless requested.

2011-01-22 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, btrfsctl is deprecated, why you're adding new options to it? :) Regards, Felix On 22. January 2011 - 12:59, Maximilian Mehnert wrote: Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:59:22 +0100 From: Maximilian Mehnert maximilian.mehn...@gmx.de To: linux-btrfs linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH]

Re: [PATCH] Add -v option to btrfsctl to control verbosity: Be quiet unless requested.

2011-01-22 Thread Felix Blanke
, 22 Jan 2011 13:26:51 +0100 From: Maximilian Mehnert maximilian.mehn...@gmx.de To: linux-btrfs linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -v option to btrfsctl to control verbosity: Be quiet unless requested. On 22/01/11 13:11, Felix Blanke wrote: Hi, btrfsctl is deprecated

Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-22 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, I wanted to create a new btrfs fs for my backups. When trying to mkfs.btrfs for that device, I'm getting error checking /dev/loop2 mount status With strace I see where the problem is: lstat(/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO939201JX160AGN-par, 0x7fffa30b3cf0) = -1 ENOENT (No

Re: Bug in mkfs.btrfs?!

2011-01-22 Thread Felix Blanke
I was able to create the fs with the --force options. But that bug should be fixed, too :) Is that link maybe too long? It is created by udev, and there was never a problem using that link. Regards, Felix On 22. January 2011 - 15:45, Felix Blanke wrote: Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:45:13 +0100

Re: labelling

2010-11-11 Thread Felix Blanke
Am Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:37:38 +0900 schrieb Tsutomu Itoh t-i...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hi. (2010/11/11 16:48), Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Hugo, Du meintest am 10.11.10: findfs LABEL=MM2 shows /dev/sdd2 (the first partition) file -s /dev/sdd2 file -s

How to see raid level?!

2010-11-01 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, I saw some reports of ppl in this list who did a btrfs fi df /path and saw the raidlevel of the data, metadata etc. How? :) I'm using the git version of the btrfs progs and 2.6.36, but I don't see those informations. Btrfs v0.19-35-g1b444cd-dirty What am I doing wrong? :( Regards,

Re: How to see raid level?!

2010-11-01 Thread Felix Blanke
: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 04:33:30 -0600 From: cwillu cwi...@cwillu.com To: Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to see raid level?! On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I saw some reports of ppl in this list

Re: Determine if a given fs is a btrfs fs

2010-10-25 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, that was a good hint, thanks a lot! The best at that solution is that it works for all filesystems: Just test if the output of $type (type=`blkid -s TYPE -o value $loopdev`) is empty (''), then it is no filesystem and the loopaes password was wrong or the device/fs is broken. Felix On

Determine if a given fs is a btrfs fs

2010-10-24 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, I've some btrfs fs which are encrypted with loopaes. I decrypt them in a script during bootup. Now I want to determine if the decrypted fs is a btrfs fs. If not I missspelled the password and I can handle that error in my script. Thanks for any help! Felix -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: newbie question about inode numbers

2010-10-20 Thread Felix Blanke
Which is a really good thing! HTML e-mails are useless and nobody should use them! I'm sure they came directly from hell. David Nicol schrieb: Wow, vger categorically refuses HTML e-mail! On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Nicol davidni...@gmail.com wrote: the inode number is an

Re: flood of btrfs WARNINGs in dmesg

2010-10-04 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, that issue is allready reported to this mailinglist and there is a longer conversation about it. Cheers, Felix On 04. October 2010 - 15:19, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:19:41 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject:

Re: [PATCH] Add the btrfs filesystem label command

2010-09-15 Thread Felix Blanke
Worked like it should for me :) Thanks a lot for your work. I hope this patch will be merged soon. Like G.Baroncelli says: It's such an essential feature. Regards, Felix Goffredo Baroncelli schrieb: Hi all, this patch adds the command btrfs filesystem label to change (or show) the label

Re: btrfs and raid1 (restore)

2010-09-08 Thread Felix Blanke
back etc.? Regards, Felix On 07. September 2010 - 20:46, Jérôme Poulin wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:46:19 -0400 From: Jérôme Poulin jeromepou...@gmail.com To: Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: btrfs and raid1 (restore

Re: btrfs-progs (unstable) failing to compile successfully

2010-08-28 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, I don't know what the problem is but I'm also using gentoo and the live ebuild (amd64) and it compiles fine with scooter ~ # gcc --version gcc (Gentoo 4.4.3-r2 p1.2) 4.4.3 Regards, Felix On 28. August 2010 - 21:56, Zhu Yanhai wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:56:48 +0800 From: Zhu

Set/change label

2010-08-24 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi, is there any way to set/change the label after the filesystem has been created? Best regards, Felix -- 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: Set/change label

2010-08-24 Thread Felix Blanke
such an elementary thing. Thanks again for your help! Regards, Felix On 24. August 2010 - 23:35, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:35:23 +0200 From: Goffredo Baroncelli kreij...@gmail.com To: Felix Blanke felixbla...@gmail.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Set