ext4 convert bugs, wiki warning?

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
Does someone with wiki edit capability want to put up a warning about btrfs-convert problems? I don't think it needs to be a lengthy write up since the scope of the problem is not clear yet. But since there's definitely reproduced problems that have been going on for some time now maybe it'd be a

Re: Filesystem unmountable

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
There appears to be some regressions in btrfs-convert that are in the list archive over the last month in particular - but I think the problems particularly started to surface about 6ish months ago. When I filed the bugs I was seeing with converted ext4 file systems, they were completely

Filesystem unmountable

2015-08-01 Thread Cornelius van Rooyen
Good day, This might be something you are already aware of, but I thought I should inform someone of what happened to my sytem. I was running ArchLinux with kernel 4.1.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 GNU/Linux and executed btrfs-convert /mnt from an ArchLinux live disk to convert my ext4

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2015 19:14:13 -0600 as excerpted: On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: 1) If this fs was created with btrfs-progs v4.1.1, get what you need to retrieve off of it immediately, then blow it away and start over, as the thing

Re: mount btrfs takes 30 minutes, btrfs check runs out of memory

2015-08-01 Thread Georgi Georgiev
Quoting John Ettedgui at 2015-07-30-21:10:27(-0700): On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Qu Wenruo quwen...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the trace output. You are welcome, thank you for looking at it! But it seems that, your root partition is also btrfs, causing a lot of

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Hendrik Friedel wrote: Hello, I converted an array to raid5 by btrfs device add /dev/sdd /mnt/new_storage btrfs device add /dev/sdc /mnt/new_storage btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid5 -mconvert=raid5 /mnt/new_storage/ The Balance went through.

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Hendrik Friedel wrote: Hello, I converted an array to raid5 by btrfs device add /dev/sdd /mnt/new_storage btrfs device add /dev/sdc /mnt/new_storage btrfs balance start

Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, I converted an array to raid5 by btrfs device add /dev/sdd /mnt/new_storage btrfs device add /dev/sdc /mnt/new_storage btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid5 -mconvert=raid5 /mnt/new_storage/ The Balance went through. But now: Label: none uuid: a8af3832-48c7-4568-861f-e80380dd7e0b

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2015 14:44:52 -0600 as excerpted: On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Hendrik Friedel wrote: Hello, I converted an array to raid5 by btrfs device add /dev/sdd /mnt/new_storage

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Duncan
Hugo Mills posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2015 22:34:13 + as excerpted: Yes and that also puts it in the realm of kernels that weren't releasing/deallocating empty chunks; although I don't know if that's a factor, if dconvert forcibly deals with this.. It does -- you only have to look at the

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Hendrik Friedel hend...@friedels.name wrote: Hello, I converted an array to raid5 by btrfs device add /dev/sdd /mnt/new_storage btrfs device add /dev/sdc /mnt/new_storage btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid5 -mconvert=raid5 /mnt/new_storage/ The Balance went

Re: ext4 convert bugs, wiki warning?

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 11:29:40AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Does someone with wiki edit capability want to put up a warning about btrfs-convert problems? I don't think it needs to be a lengthy write up since the scope of

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Does fi usage deal with raid5 yet? Now that you mention it, I think it doesn't. But if it did, it would show this problem better than df I think. But, somewhere along the line he got 6 GiB of raid1 metadata. Either he

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 04:26:25PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Does fi usage deal with raid5 yet? Now that you mention it, I think it doesn't. But if it did, it would show this problem better than df I think. But,

Re: ext4 convert bugs, wiki warning?

2015-08-01 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 11:29:40AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Does someone with wiki edit capability want to put up a warning about btrfs-convert problems? I don't think it needs to be a lengthy write up since the scope of the problem is not clear yet. But since there's definitely reproduced

Re: Data single *and* raid?

2015-08-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: 1) If this fs was created with btrfs-progs v4.1.1, get what you need to retrieve off of it immediately, then blow it away and start over, as the thing isn't stable and all data is at risk. Agreed. But I'd go so far as to say

Re: mount btrfs takes 30 minutes, btrfs check runs out of memory

2015-08-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 02:35:39 PM John Ettedgui wrote: It seems that you're using Chromium while doing the dump. :) If no CD drive, I'll recommend to use Archlinux installation iso to make a bootable USB stick and do the dump. (just download and dd would do the trick) As its kernel and