Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-28 Thread Stephan Alz
Oct 28 12:03:48 2014] btrfs: found 16561 extents Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 1:07 AM From: Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here Chris Murphy posted on Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:51:16 -0600 as excerpted: On Oct 27

Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-28 Thread E V
: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here Chris Murphy posted on Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:51:16 -0600 as excerpted: On Oct 27, 2014, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Alz stephan...@gmx.com wrote: My question is where to go from here? What I going to do right now is to copy the most important data

Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-28 Thread Duncan
Stephan Alz posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:33:12 +0100 as excerpted: And about the data not being important to backed up, hell yes it is so yesterday I did a backup of the backups to a good old XFS filesystem (something which is reliable). Makes sense. FWIW, my second backup is to reiserfs,

Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:12 AM, E V eliven...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen dead locks on 3.16.3. Personally, I'm staying with 3.14 until something newer stabilizes, haven't had any issues with it. You might want to try the latest 3.14, though I think there should be a new one pretty soon with

Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Since it's not an option here I've not looked into it too closely personally, and don't know if it'll fit your needs, but if it does, it may well be simpler to substitute it into the existing backup setup without rewriting the

BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-27 Thread Stephan Alz
Hello Folks, I used to have an array of 4x4TB drives with BTRFS in raid10. The kernel version is: 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64 BTRFS version is: v3.14.1 When it was reaching 80% in space I added another 4TB drive to the array with: btrfs device add /dev/sdf /mnt/backup And started the balancing to the

Re: BTRFS balance segfault, where to go from here

2014-10-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 27, 2014, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Alz stephan...@gmx.com wrote: My question is where to go from here? What I going to do right now is to copy the most important data to another separated XFS drive. What I planning to do is: 1, Upgrade the kernel 2, Upgrade BTRFS 3, Continue the