On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:44:20AM +0100, Tobias Holst wrote: > I tried the RAID6 implementation of btrfs and I looks like I had the > same problem. Rebuild with "balance" worked but when a drive was > removed when mounted and then readded, the chaos began. I tried it a > few times. So when a drive fails (and this is just because of > connection lost or similar non severe problems), then it is necessary > to wipe the disc first before readding it, so btrfs will add it as a > new disk and not try to readd the old one.
Good to know you got this too. Just to confirm: did you get it to rebuild, or once a drive is lost/gets behind, you're in degraded mode forever for those blocks? Or were you able to balance? Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- 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