Maybe we should have a warning in mkfs.btrfs for the problematic RAID layouts.

On December 3, 2014 6:19:22 AM GMT+11:00, Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>On 12/1/2014 4:45 PM, Konstantin wrote:
>> The bug appears also when using mdadm RAID1 - when one of the
>> drives is detached from the array then the OS discovers it and
>> after a while (not directly, it takes several minutes) it appears
>> under /proc/mounts: instead of /dev/md0p1 I see there /dev/sdb1.
>> And usually after some hour or so (depending on system workload)
>> the PC completely freezes. So discussion about the uniqueness of
>> UUIDs or not, a crashing kernel is telling me that there is a
>> serious bug.
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>I'm guessing you are using metadata format 0.9 or 1.0, which put the
>metadata at the end of the drive and the filesystem still starts in
>sector zero.  1.2 is now the default and would not have this problem
>as its metadata is at the start of the disk ( well, 4k from the start
>) and the fs starts further down.
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