On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:58:49 +0800 Qu Wenruo <quwen...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Btrfs currently uses num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures to do global > check for tolerated missing device. > > Although the one-size-fit-all solution is quite safe, it's too strict > if data and metadata has different duplication level. > > For example, if one use Single data and RAID1 metadata for 2 disks, it > means any missing device will make the fs unable to be degraded > mounted. > > But in fact, some times all single chunks may be in the existing > device and in that case, we should allow it to be rw degraded mounted. > > Such case can be easily reproduced using the following script: > # mkfs.btrfs -f -m raid1 -d sing /dev/sdb /dev/sdc > # wipefs -f /dev/sdc > # mount /dev/sdb -o degraded,rw > > If using btrfs-debug-tree to check /dev/sdb, one should find that the > data chunk is only in sdb, so in fact it should allow degraded mount. > > This patchset will introduce a new per-chunk degradable check for > btrfs, allow above case to succeed, and it's quite small anyway. > > And enhance kernel error message for missing device, at least kernel > can know what's making mount failed, other than meaningless > "failed to read system chunk/chunk tree -5". Hello, Tested the patchset for raid1 and raid10. Successfully allows degraded mount with single chunks on the filesystems without one drive. Feel free to add Tested-By: Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfl...@demfloro.ru> -- 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