Issues with unmountable BTRFS raid1 filesystem

[Austin S Hemmelgarn]

I've been having issues recently with a relatively simple setup using a two device BTRFS raid1 on top of two two device md RAID0's, and every time I've rebooted since starting trying to use this particular filesystem, I've found it unable to mount and had to recreate it from scratch. This is more of an inconvenience than anything else (while I don't have backups of it, all the data is trivial to recreate (in fact, so trivial that doing backups would be more effort than just recreating the data by hand)), but it's still something that I would like to try and fix.

First off, general info:

Kernel version: 4.2.1-local+ (4.2.1 with minor modifications, sources can be found here: https://github.com/ferroin/linux)

Btrfs-progs version: 4.2






bad metadata [<bytenr>, <bytenr>) crossing stripe boundary

followed eventually by:
Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation



I doubt that this is a hardware issue because:

I would post output from btrfs fi show, but that's spouting obviously wrong data (it's saying I'm using only 127MB with 2GB of allocations on each 'disk', I had been storing approximately 4-6GB of actual data on the filesystem). This particular filesystem is composed of BTRFS raid1 across two LVM managed DM/MD RAID0 devices, each of which spans 2 physical hard drives. I have a couple of other filesystems with the exact same configuration that have not ever displayed this issue. When I run 'btrfs check' on the filesystem when it refuses to mount, I get a number of lines like the following: As is typical of a failed mount, dmesg shows a 'failed to read the system array on <device>' 'open_ctree failed'. 1. Memory is brand new, and I ran a 48 hour burn-in test that showed no errors. 2. A failing storage controller, PSU, or CPU would be manifesting with many more issues than just this. 3. A disk failure would mean that two different disks, from different manufacturing lots, are encountering errors on exactly the same LBA's at exactly the same time, which while possible is astronomically unlikely for disks bigger than a few hundred gigabytes (the disks in question are 1TB each).

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