If there are more than one path to a device, the last scanned path will map to the mounted FS. In some Linux based os there appears to be a system script (autofs?) which fails to notice that a device's alternative path is already mounted, and so the change in device-path gets logged every ~2mins whenever such a script is active.
kernel: [33017.407252] BTRFS info (device sdc3): device fsid 4d1ba5af-8b89-4cb5-96c6-55d1f028a202 devid 4 moved old:/dev/mapper/cryptdata4tb--vg-backup new:/dev/dm-13 kernel: [33017.522242] BTRFS info (device sdc3): device fsid 4d1ba5af-8b89-4cb5-96c6-55d1f028a202 devid 4 moved old:/dev/dm-13 new:/dev/mapper/cryptdata4tb--vg-backup kernel: [33018.797161] BTRFS info (device sdc3): device fsid 4d1ba5af-8b89-4cb5-96c6-55d1f028a202 devid 4 moved old:/dev/mapper/cryptdata4tb--vg-backup new:/dev/dm-13 kernel: [33019.061631] BTRFS info (device sdc3): device fsid 4d1ba5af-8b89-4cb5-96c6-55d1f028a202 devid 4 moved old:/dev/dm-13 new:/dev/mapper/cryptdata4tb--vg-backup Fix this by using the ratelimit printk. Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.j...@oracle.com> Reported-by: g.bt...@cobb.uk.net Reported-by: cales...@scientia.net --- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index a13ddba1ebc3..b4c4add7b5e7 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c @@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ static noinline struct btrfs_device *device_list_add(const char *path, return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST); } bdput(path_bdev); - btrfs_info_in_rcu(device->fs_info, + btrfs_info_rl_in_rcu(device->fs_info, "device fsid %pU devid %llu moved old:%s new:%s", disk_super->fsid, devid, rcu_str_deref(device->name), path); -- 2.21.0 (Apple Git-120)