On Thursday 31 December 2009 21.44:58 regomodo wrote: > On Thursday 31 December 2009 19:24:12 Chris Ball wrote: > > Hi Reg, > > > > > Hi, I have a btrfs 'pool' of x2 Samsung 500GB HDD's in non-raid > > > format. It works fine for the most part except for mounting on > > > bootup. Every bootup I have to change the block-device to and fro > > > /dev/sda & /dev/sdb. This happens on linux-2.6.32.2 and > > > 2.6.33-rc2. > > > > Are you running "btrfsctl -a" in an initrd? It's necessary to do that > > before the mount call on a multi-disk volume. > > I did not know that. I've just given it a try on Funtoo and Ubuntu and it > makes no difference. On Funtoo, my small script runs 'btrfsctl -a' at the > boot runlevel but I still get those 3 errors. I even try running > 'btrfsctl -a' again before I try 'mount -av' but still no luck.
I had a similar issue and discovered that "btrfsctl -a" doesn't load the btrfs module. So I do "modprobe btrfs; btrfsctl -a" cheers -- vbi -- The idea is that you can only get in trouble for what you actually did. What a concept. -- Pam Jones, Groklaw
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