Thanks to Su and Qu, I was able to get my filesystem to a point that it's mountable. I then deleted loads of snapshots and I'm down to 26.
IT now looks like this: gargamel:~# btrfs fi show /mnt/mnt Label: 'dshelf2' uuid: 0f1a0c9f-4e54-4fa7-8736-fd50818ff73d Total devices 1 FS bytes used 12.30TiB devid 1 size 14.55TiB used 13.81TiB path /dev/mapper/dshelf2 gargamel:~# btrfs fi df /mnt/mnt Data, single: total=13.57TiB, used=12.19TiB System, DUP: total=32.00MiB, used=1.55MiB Metadata, DUP: total=124.50GiB, used=115.62GiB Metadata, single: total=216.00MiB, used=0.00B GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B Problems 1) btrfs check --repair _still_ takes all 32GB of RAM and crashes the server, despite my deleting lots of snapshots. Is it because I have too many files then? 2) I tried Su's master git branch for btrfs-progs to try and see how a normal check would go, and I'm stuck on this: gargamel:/var/local/src/btrfs-progs.sy# time ./btrfsck --mode=lowmem --repair /dev/mapper/dshelf2 enabling repair mode WARNING: low-memory mode repair support is only partial Checking filesystem on /dev/mapper/dshelf2 UUID: 0f1a0c9f-4e54-4fa7-8736-fd50818ff73d root 18446744073709551607 has a root item with a more recent gen (143376) compared to the found root node (139061) ERROR: failed to repair root items: Invalid argument real 75m8.046s user 0m14.591s sys 0m52.431s I understand what the message means, I just need to switch to the newer root but honestly I'm not quite sure how to do this from the btrfs-check man page. This didn't work: time ./btrfsck --mode=lowmem --repair --chunk-root=18446744073709551607 /dev/mapper/dshelf2 enabling repair mode WARNING: low-memory mode repair support is only partial WARNING: chunk_root_bytenr 18446744073709551607 is unaligned to 4096, ignore it How do I address the error above? Thanks Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 -- 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