btrfsck is using far too much memory

2014-04-25 Thread Christian Robert
btrfsck is using far too much memory ! I tryed a btrfsck on my /dev/md127 (13T) and had to kill it because btrfsck used 7.8 Gigs of ram ( machine have 8 Gigs of ram, plus four Gigs on swap when I killed it) btrfsck should not try to bring "in memory" the whole metadata, etc. my 2 cents, (will

Re: Some impossible benchmark results with LUKS - what am I missing?

2014-03-26 Thread Christian Robert
Only thing I can see is Lurk is not passing the barrier (do that writes in sequence then ack) to the devices. so it act as a caching device (dangerous for btrfs point of view). I'm *no* expert in that matter at all. I may be wrong. Xtian. On 2014-03-26 21:56, Evan Powell wrote: Order did not

Re: Why cannot I move a read-only snapshot around?

2013-10-25 Thread Christian Robert
you can change a "ro" snapshot into a "rw" snapshot you just snapshot it without the -r" option ex: # btrfs subv snap -r linux-3.12-rc5 snap_ro Create a readonly snapshot of 'linux-3.12-rc5' in './snap_ro' # touch ./snap_ro/helo touch: cannot touch ‘./snap_ro/helo’: Read-only file system # bt

btrfs: Probably the larger filesystem I will see for a long time

2012-05-18 Thread Christian Robert
Probably the larger filesystem I will ever see. Tryed 8 Exabytes but it failed. [root@CentOS6-A:/root] # df Filesystem1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted /dev/mapper/vg01-root 17915884 11533392 5513572 68% / /dev/sda1

Re: btrfs: block rsv returned -28

2012-02-24 Thread Christian Robert
Xtian. On 2012-02-24 21:37, cwillu wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Christian Robert wrote: Hi, I ran a quite heavy script who create 10,000 subvolumes and then delete thoses 10,000 subvolumes. No problems in the "create" part, but at the "delete" part I got se

btrfs: block rsv returned -28

2012-02-24 Thread Christian Robert
Hi, I ran a quite heavy script who create 10,000 subvolumes and then delete thoses 10,000 subvolumes. No problems in the "create" part, but at the "delete" part I got several traceback from the kernel: [ 977.095799] Btrfs loaded [ 985.847955] device fsid 8375b14f-116e-4507-b523-607c2e04f485 d

What are thoses [btrfs-cache-nnn] kernel threads ?

2011-05-18 Thread Christian Robert
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