Re: Mis-Design of Btrfs?

2011-07-14 Thread Erik Jensen
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:47 AM, A. James Lewis ja...@fsck.co.uk wrote: Is there a possibility that one could have a 3 disk RAID5 array, and then add a 4th disk and then do a balance, growing the RAID5 onto 4 disks and gaining the space still with RAID5? It seems that to be consistent, BTRFS

Re: Mis-Design of Btrfs?

2011-07-14 Thread Erik Jensen
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM, John Stoffel j...@stoffel.org wrote: Alasdair == Alasdair G Kergon a...@redhat.com writes: Alasdair On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:38:36PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: It might make sense for a device to be able to report what the maximum 'N' supported is... that

Honest timeline for btrfsck

2011-08-03 Thread Erik Jensen
that everyone is working hard, and I deeply appreciate the effort being put into this filesystem. I'm not looking for an exact date, just a rough order of magnitude on which to base decisions. Thank you very much. --Erik Jensen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs

Re: Honest timeline for btrfsck

2011-09-23 Thread Erik Jensen
Chris, Now that you're back from vacation, I was wondering if you would be able to provide a revised estimate on how long this will take. Also, of the four parts, which will be necessary to correct a 'parent transid verify failed' error? Thank you for your time, --Erik On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at

Recovering data from old corrupted file system

2011-11-21 Thread Erik Jensen
of the file system to pull off the bits I need? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Erik Jensen -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Unable to remove failing drive from storage pool

2010-06-14 Thread Erik Jensen
part of the dmesg output: http://fpaste.org/jnz8/ The part of the kernel state that seemed like they might be relevant: http://fpaste.org/0KKR/ btrfs-vol is towards the bottom.  The entire state dump didn't fit in my dmesg buffer so there might be something missing. Thanks, Erik Jensen

Can't remove missing drive (kernel BUG)

2010-10-17 Thread Erik Jensen
I have an six-drive array I use for television recordings (4 2TB and 2 1.5TB). Yesterday, I had one of the 1.5TBs die on me, so I did a mount -o degraded /dev/sdb /mnt/media followed by a btrfs-vol -r missing /mnt/media, but the latter command almost immediately generated a kernel BUG message,

kernel BUG when removing missing drive (Take 2)

2010-10-19 Thread Erik Jensen
One of my drives on my six drive btrfs setup recently died. I initially wasn't too worried about it, since both my data and metadata are raid1. However, I have so far not been able to remove the missing drive after several attempts. After discussing my problem on IRC, Chris Mason asked me to

Re: kernel BUG when removing missing drive (Take 2)

2010-10-29 Thread Erik Jensen
, 2010 at 07:17:16PM -0700, Erik Jensen wrote: One of my drives on my six drive btrfs setup recently died.  I initially wasn't too worried about it, since both my data and metadata are raid1.  However, I have so far not been able to remove the missing drive after several attempts. After