I can't help much at the moment, but the following will help sort things out:
Can you provide as much detail as possible about how things were configured at the time of the failure? Raid levels used, kernel versions at the time of the failure, how the disks are connected, general description of the activity on the disk and the nature of its contents (all large files? rootfs? mail spools?) What you were thinking at the time you decided that you couldn't afford backups? As much detail as possible on what all you've tried since the failure to recover things? It's likely the data is fine (if currently inaccessible), but obviously things are in a fragile state, and the important thing right now is to not make things worse: a recoverable situation may otherwise turn into an irrecoverable one. -- 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