On 8 September 2015 at 22:17, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Ian Kumlien <ian.kuml...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 8 September 2015 at 22:08, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Ian Kumlien <ian.kuml...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> [--8<--] >> >>>> Someone thought they were done too early, only one disk => read only >>>> mount. But, readonly mount => no balance. >>>> >>>> I think something is wrong.... >>>> >>>> btrfs balance start -dconvert=single -mconvert=single /mnt/disk/ >>>> ERROR: error during balancing '/mnt/disk/' - Read-only file system >>>> >>>> btrfs dev delete missing /mnt/disk/ >>>> ERROR: error removing the device 'missing' - Read-only file system >>>> >>>> Any mount without ro becomes: >>>> [ 507.236652] BTRFS info (device sda2): allowing degraded mounts >>>> [ 507.236655] BTRFS info (device sda2): disk space caching is enabled >>>> [ 507.325365] BTRFS: bdev (null) errs: wr 2036894, rd 2031380, flush >>>> 705, corrupt 0, gen 0 >>>> [ 510.983321] BTRFS: too many missing devices, writeable mount is not >>>> allowed >>>> [ 511.006241] BTRFS: open_ctree failed >>>> >>>> And one of them has to give! ;) >>> >>> >>> You've run into this: >>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92641 >> >> Ah, I thought it might not be known - I'm currently copying the files >> since a read only mount is "good enough" for that >> >> -o degraded should allow readwrite *IF* the data can be written to.... >> My question is also, would this keep me from "adding devices"? >> I mean, it did seem like a catch 22 earlier, but that would really >> make a mess of things... > > It is not possible to add a device to an ro filesystem, so effectively > the fs read-writeability is broken in this case.
Wow, now that's quite a bug! > -- > Chris Murphy -- 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
