I was doing it on an unmounted volume anyhow.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn
> <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-08-17 14:52, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong.  Here's what I'm seeing:
>>>
>>> # btrfs-image -c9 -t4 -w /mnt/btrfs ~/btrfs_dump.z
>>> Superblock bytenr is larger than device size
>>> Open ctree failed
>>> create failed (No such file or directory)
>>
>>
>> For the source, you need to specify the underlying block device, not the top
>> of the mounted filesystem.  It's trying to read the directory as a block
>> device and getting very confused.  We should probably add some kind of check
>> to btrfs-image to warn about that.
>
> Should it even be possible to use btrfs-image on a mounted volume? If
> it's written to at all, the collected image is going to be
> inconsistent.
>
> --
> Chris Murphy



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Open Graphics Project
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