Can lgetxattr legally return ENODATA?

2012-04-13 Thread A. James Lewis
the permissions the same as they were before and restarting boxbackup the problem vanished. - -- A. James Lewis (ja...@fsck.co.uk) Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Mis-Design of Btrfs?

2011-06-29 Thread A. James Lewis
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 10:29 +0100, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 06/27/2011 07:46 AM, NeilBrown wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:53:37 +0200 Nico Schottelius nico-lkml-20110...@schottelius.org wrote: Good morning devs, I'm wondering whether the raid- and volume-management-builtin of btrfs is

Confusing...

2011-04-30 Thread A. James Lewis
it can even tell I've added more storage, let alone fail to boot. -- A. James Lewis (ja...@fsck.co.uk) Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Excluding a device from storing snapshot data?

2011-02-16 Thread A. James Lewis
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:58 +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote: Hi all, I'm currently envision a backup setup for my laptop which has a SSD. I would like to use an external HDD und span a raid1 over these two devices and also creating snapshots. What I would like to prevent, is that these snapshots

Re: Corrupt filesystem after power failure

2011-02-10 Thread A. James Lewis
I'm far from an expert here, but perhaps you would be worth trying a newer version of the BTRFS drivers, either via a newer kernel or re-compiling a kernel with updated BTRFS patches. I would think that the simplest quick test to see if this would help you would be to get a snapshot from

Re: Recover Corruption - verify_parent_transid

2010-08-09 Thread A. James Lewis
inaccessible, I might be tempted to put the drive on a shelf for 6 months and see if btrfsck was able to repair filesystems by then. It may be that the on disk format is changed before that happens, but I understand that this is now relatively unlikely. A. James Lewis -- To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.6.35 performance results

2010-08-07 Thread A. James Lewis
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:44:11PM -0500, Steven Pratt wrote: Here is the latest set of performance runs from the 2.6.35-rc5 tree. Included is a refresh of all the other filesystems with some changes for barriers on and off since this has been somewhat of a hot topic recently. New

Re: Configuring default mount options..

2010-07-26 Thread A. James Lewis
From: Oystein Viggen oysteivi at tihlde.org Subject: Re: Configuring default mount options.. Newsgroups: gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs Date: 2010-07-26 06:08:54 GMT (5 hours and 4 minutes ago) * [A. James Lewis] Maybe there is a way to do this already, but it seems like

Configuring default mount options..

2010-07-25 Thread A. James Lewis
drive, or flash stick, the filesystem can be configured to mount with compression by default. Maybe there is a way to do this already, but it seems like the filesystem itself should contain preferences for the way it is used under those circumstances. A. James Lewis -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Configuring default mount options..

2010-07-25 Thread A. James Lewis
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 03:10 +0200, Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen wrote: On 26 July 2010 02:56, A. James Lewis ja...@fsck.co.uk wrote: If using BTRFS on a removable drive... it may be a problem for example, to always mount with compression, or always mount with encryption (If supported in future