On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Erkki Seppala <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I added daily rebalancing to my cron.d (after finding myself in
> the no-space-situation), and not long after that, I found my PC had
> crashed over night. Having no sign in the logs anywhere (not even over
> network even though there should be) I had nothing to go on, but this
> night it crashed again after starting the rebalance, and this time there
> was some information on the kernel log.
>
> Kernel version: 4.2.3 (package linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64 version 4.2.3-1
> from Debian Unstable)
>
> The dump is available at:
>
>   http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/btrfs/btrfs-BUG-2015-10-55.txt
>
> The log is available as well (stripped some unrelated USB- and firewall
> logging, showing that last evening there was some kernel task hung for
> 120 seconds; but it's in another btrfs filesystem and is another story):
>
>   http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/btrfs/btrfs-2015-10-55.txt
>
> I'm not quite sure which of the btrfs balance commands caused the
> issue. But there is my script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> fs="$1"
> if [ -z "$fs" ]; then
>   echo usage: btrfs-balance / 0 1 5 10 20 50
>   exit 1
> fi
> fs="$1"
> shift
> for usage in d m; do for a in "$@"; do date; /bin/btrfs balance start
> "$fs" -v -${usage}usage=$a; done; done
>
> And it was started at 07:30 with:
>
>   /usr/local/sbin/btrfs-balance / 0 1 2 5 10 20 30 50 70
>
> I should add that the filesystem in question is backed by MD RAID10 and
> that is backed by four SSDs, so it's reasonably fast in IO, if that
> affects anything. There should have been no much competing IO at the
> time of the occurrence.
>
> Before Duncan asks ;-), I only have a moderate number of subvolumes and
> snapshots, ie. one subvolume for each of /, /var/log/journal and /home,
> 24 snapshots of / and /home plus <10 snapshots of /.
>
> Before that balance there was another balance on a another BTRFS RAID10,
> but given the time stamp I think I can easily say it wasn't the cause.
>
> I don't really have other 'solutions' than disabling the rebalancing for
> the time being, and only use it as-needed as I had earlier done..

Try this (just sent a few minutes ago):
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7463161/

thanks

>
> Cheers,
>
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