Hallo, I'm just playing with "btrfs scrub".
Kernel 3.1 (self made) btrfs integration-20111030 (Hugo Mills) I have a bundle of 3 2-TByte-disks (data raid0, metadata raid1). Since some (few) weeks one of the disks makes errors (I've reported the problems in this mailing list). The bundle uses the devices /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdg1, "btrfs filesystem show" shows these informations. Mounting doesn't work immediately; most times I have to run the "mount" command three times - strange. When I run btrfs scrub start -r /dev/sdb1 (or another of the three disks) then I only get the error message ERROR: getting dev info for scrub failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device I don't use "udev", "ls -l /dev/sdb1" shows brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 29. Apr 1995 /dev/sdb1 Running the command via "strace" shows the last lines set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0x401b6b80, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0x401b0000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4004c000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4001d000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x40021000, 89277) = 0 set_tid_address(0x401b6be8) = 10400 set_robust_list(0x401b6bf0, 0xc) = 0 futex(0xbffe4c00, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 futex(0xbffe4c00, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 1, NULL, bffe4c10) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x4003b520, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x4003b5a0, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="Arktur.wm8.hullen.de", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x806d000 brk(0x808e000) = 0x808e000 mkdir("/var", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) mkdir("/var/lib", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) mkdir("/var/lib/btrfs", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) stat64("/dev/sdb1", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0640, st_rdev=makedev(8, 17), ...}) = 0 open("/dev/sdb1", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 ioctl(3, 0x8400941f, 0xbffe4554) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) write(2, "ERROR: getting dev info for scru"..., 73ERROR: getting dev info for scrub failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ) = 73 close(3) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? -------------------------------------------------- Changing the rights of "/dev/sdb1" to 660 doesn't help - same nasty behaviour. What goes wrong? Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- 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