Re: trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-02 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-11-01 09:33, Ken Long wrote: > I get a similar read-only status when I try to remove the drive from the > array.. > > Too bad the utility's function can not be slowed down.. to avoid > triggering this error... ? > Actually, there are a couple of ways you could do this. The most

trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-01 Thread Ken Long
I have a file system of four 5TB drives. Well, one drive is 8TB with a 5TB partition.. the rest are 5TB drives. I created the initial btrfs file system on on drive. rsync'd data to it. added another drive. rsync'd data. added a third drive, rsync'd data. Added a four drive, trying to balance. The

Re: trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-01 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 06:24:53AM -0500, Ken Long wrote: > I have a file system of four 5TB drives. Well, one drive is 8TB with a > 5TB partition.. the rest are 5TB drives. I created the initial btrfs > file system on on drive. rsync'd data to it. added another drive. > rsync'd data. added a

Re: trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-01 Thread Ken Long
I get a similar read-only status when I try to remove the drive from the array.. Too bad the utility's function can not be slowed down.. to avoid triggering this error... ? I had some success putting data *onto* the drive by croning sync every two seconds in a different terminal. Doesn't seem

Re: trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-01 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 06:24:53 -0500 Ken Long wrote: > Well, one drive is 8TB with a 5TB partition. Is this by any chance a Seagate "SMR" drive? From what I remember seeing on the list, those do not work well with Btrfs currently, with symptoms very similar to what you're

Re: trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-01 Thread Ken Long
Yes, the one drive is that Seagate 8TB drive.. Smart tools doesn't show anything outrageous or obvious in hardware. Is there any other info I can provide to isolate, troubleshoot further? I'm not sure how to correlate the dmesg message to a specific drive, SATA cable etc.. On Sun, Nov 1,

Re: trying to balance, filesystem keeps going read-only.

2015-11-01 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 09:07:08 -0500 Ken Long wrote: > Yes, the one drive is that Seagate 8TB drive.. > > Smart tools doesn't show anything outrageous or obvious in hardware. > > Is there any other info I can provide to isolate, troubleshoot further? > > I'm not sure how