This depends on the kernel patch: [PATCH] btrfs:replace EINVAL with EOPNOTSUPP for dev_replace
This catches the EOPNOTSUPP and output msg that says dev_replace raid56 is not currently supported. Note that the msg will only be shown when run dev_replace not in background. Signed-off-by: Gui Hecheng <guihc.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- cmds-replace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/cmds-replace.c b/cmds-replace.c index 9eb981b..8b18110 100644 --- a/cmds-replace.c +++ b/cmds-replace.c @@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ static int cmd_start_replace(int argc, char **argv) "ERROR: ioctl(DEV_REPLACE_START) failed on \"%s\": %s, %s\n", path, strerror(errno), replace_dev_result2string(start_args.result)); + + if (errno == EOPNOTSUPP) + fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: dev_replace cannot yet handle RAID5/RAID6\n"); + goto leave_with_error; } -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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