Re: HELP unmountable partition after btrfs balance to RAID0

2018-12-07 Thread Duncan
ckup == no backup, or at best, backup still in process!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: unable to fixup (regular) error

2018-11-26 Thread Duncan
device is actively getting worse it might be a losing battle) repair any metadata damage on the bad device, thus giving you a far better chance of saving the filesystem as a whole. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: Filesystem mounts fine but hangs on access

2018-11-04 Thread Duncan
Adam Borowski posted on Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:55:30 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 06:29:06PM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> So do consider adding noatime to your mount options if you haven't done >> so already. AFAIK, the only /semi-common/ app that actually uses >&

Re: Filesystem mounts fine but hangs on access

2018-11-04 Thread Duncan
y to access something. It's far lest risky than a normal writable mount, and at minimum it provides you the additional test data of whether it worked or not, plus if it does, a chance to access the data and make sure your backups are current, before actually trying to do any repairs. -- Dun

Re: BTRFS did it's job nicely (thanks!)

2018-11-03 Thread Duncan
the btrfs replace case when it's actually a different device afterward anyway. Apparently, it doesn't even do /that/ automatically yet. Keep that in mind if you replace that device.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you u

Re: Understanding BTRFS RAID0 Performance

2018-10-05 Thread Duncan
' on-disk allocation code, etc. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: Understanding BTRFS RAID0 Performance

2018-10-05 Thread Duncan
rect version) to the other copy if the first copy read fails checksum verification, with the much better optimized mdraid0 performance. So it stands to reason that the same recommendation would apply to raid0 -- just do single-mode btrfs on mdraid0, for better performance than the as yet unopti

Re: Transaction aborted error -28 clone_finish_inode_update

2018-10-05 Thread Duncan
e more realistic operations-reserve calculations can fix things, first, as arguably that shouldn't be necessary once the calculations aren't so arbitrarily wild. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: What to do with damaged root fllesystem (opensuse leap 42.2)

2018-10-05 Thread Duncan
always strictly limited to that of the point at which having a backup is more important than the time/ trouble/resources you save(d) by not having one. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: btrfs problems

2018-09-22 Thread Duncan
to store. But for people on a really tight budget or who are storing double-digit TB of data or more, I can understand why they prefer raid5, and I do think raid5 is stable enough for data now, as long as the metadata remains raid1, AND they're actually executing on a good backup policy. -- Duncan

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] btrfs-progs: build distinct binaries for specific btrfs subcommands

2018-09-22 Thread Duncan
t; > /sbin/btrfs > /usr/bin/btrfs-subvolume-show > /usr/bin/btrfs-subvolume-list I did get you wrong (and had even understood the separately named binaries from an earlier post, too, but forgot). Thanks. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] btrfs-progs: build distinct binaries for specific btrfs subcommands

2018-09-20 Thread Duncan
t works. But in that scheme /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, are all the same dir, so only one executable of a particularly name can exist therein. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: very poor performance / a lot of writes to disk with space_cache (but not with space_cache=v2)

2018-09-20 Thread Duncan
defeats checksumming and thus scrub, which verifies checksums, simply skips it, and if the two copies get out of sync for some reason... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: GRUB writing to grubenv outside of kernel fs code

2018-09-18 Thread Duncan
onfigure option to disable the feature, because IMO grub doesn't /need/ to save state at that point, and allowing it to do so is effectively needlessly playing a risky Russian Roulette game with my storage devices. Were it actually needed that'd be different, but it's not needed, so any risk i

Re: btrfs panic problem

2018-09-17 Thread Duncan
ond-back LTS. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: state of btrfs snapshot limitations?

2018-09-14 Thread Duncan
t scaling, capping to 100 snapshots remains a reasonable recommendation, and if you need quotas as well and can't afford to disable them even temporarily for a balance, you may find under 50 snapshots to be your maintenance pain tolerance threshold. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: List of known BTRFS Raid 5/6 Bugs?

2018-09-11 Thread Duncan
followed this extremely closely, but writing this actually spurred me to google the problem and see when and how mdraid fixed it. So the links are from that. =:^) [2] Journalling/journaling, one or two Ls? The spellcheck flags both and last I tried googling it the answer was inconclusive. -- D

Re: List of known BTRFS Raid 5/6 Bugs?

2018-09-08 Thread Duncan
itigation is indeed actively being worked on right now. That's what we know at this time. And even before that, right now, raid56 mode should already be reasonably usable, especially if you do data raid5/6 and metadata raid1, as long as your backup policy and practice is equally reasonable. --

Re: Re-mounting removable btrfs on different device

2018-09-06 Thread Duncan
emoved, the above doesn't work and a reboot is necessary. Thus the need for those patches you mentioned. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: IO errors when building RAID1.... ?

2018-08-31 Thread Duncan
it for days straight may not be viable. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: How to erase a RAID1 (+++)?

2018-08-31 Thread Duncan
t the time I took the backup, so it's not a limited recovery boot at all, it has the same access to tools, manpages, net, X/plasma, browsers, etc, that my normal system does, because it /is/ my normal system from whenever I took the backup. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &

Re: How to erase a RAID1 (+++)?

2018-08-30 Thread Duncan
re planning on mounting degraded (semi-)routinely, please do reconsider, because it's just not ready for that at this point, and you're going to run into all sorts of problems trying to do it on an ongoing basis due to the above issues. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

Re: DRDY errors are not consistent with scrub results

2018-08-29 Thread Duncan
ime for a -w, but it might be worthwhile to try it on an ssd you're just trying to salvage, forcing it to swap out any bad sectors it encounters in the process. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

Re: btrfs-convert missing in btrfs-tools v4.15.1

2018-08-23 Thread Duncan
ich does nothing (successfully) but possibly print a message referring people to btrfs check, if run in interactive mode. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: lazytime mount option—no support in Btrfs

2018-08-22 Thread Duncan
raded raid1 operationally can bring, tho I never figured out for sure whether btrfs was smart enough to eventually pick up the other devices, after the scan before bringing other btrfs online or not, but either way it was a risk I wasn't willing to take.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No H

Re: lazytime mount option—no support in Btrfs

2018-08-21 Thread Duncan
ly the appropriate rootflags=device=...,device=... and actually have it work so I didn't need the initr* any longer! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

Re: Report correct filesystem usage / limits on BTRFS subvolumes with quota

2018-08-10 Thread Duncan
ota features can of course have their > own tools, but all of this re-invention of the wheel for basic directory > quotas is a mystery to me. As mentioned above and by others, btrfs quotas don't use vfs quotas (or the reverse, really, it'd be vfs quotas using information exposed by btrfs quotas.

Re: recover broken partition on external HDD

2018-08-06 Thread Duncan
lts of the next failure, whether it be hardware, software, or wetware (another fat- fingering, again, this is coming from someone, me, who has had enough of their own!), won't be anything to write the list about, unless of course it's a btrfs bug and quite apart from worrying about your data, you're j

Re: BTRFS and databases

2018-08-01 Thread Duncan
or whatever, and in that case, at least here, I'd strongly recommend you do just that, avoiding the nocow that I honestly see as a compromise best left to those that really need it because they aren't prepared to deal with the hassle of setting up the separate filesystem along with all

Re: csum failed on raid1 even after clean scrub?

2018-08-01 Thread Duncan
B might wreak. If they're not SMR then carry-on! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: File permissions lost during send/receive?

2018-07-24 Thread Duncan
r you with it, that I've simply not run into since whatever killed the filecaps here, because I don't use the lockscreen. But if I start using the lockscreen again and it fails, I know one not-so- intuitive thing to check, now. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &quo

Re: File permissions lost during send/receive?

2018-07-24 Thread Duncan
it'd be iputils' filecaps and possibly caps USE flags controlling this for ping), and also that btrfs send/receive did have a recent bugfix related to the extended-attributes normally used to record filecaps, so the symptoms match the bug and that's probably what you were seeing. -- Duncan -

Re: btrfs filesystem corruptions with 4.18. git kernels

2018-07-21 Thread Duncan
at its convenience), so the ssd can use that extra room to do its wear-leveling, and don't do trim/discard at all. FWIW I actually do both of these here, leaving significant space on the device unpartitioned, and enabling that systemd fstrim timer job, as well. -- Duncan - List replies prefer

Re: [PATCH 0/4] 3- and 4- copy RAID1

2018-07-18 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:20:09 + as excerpted: >> As implemented in BTRFS, raid1 doesn't have striping. > > The argument is that because there's only two copies, on multi-device > btrfs raid1 with 4+ devices of equal size so chunk allocations tend to > alte

Re: [PATCH 0/4] 3- and 4- copy RAID1

2018-07-18 Thread Duncan
Goffredo Baroncelli posted on Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:59:52 +0200 as excerpted: > On 07/17/2018 11:12 PM, Duncan wrote: >> Goffredo Baroncelli posted on Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:29:46 +0200 as >> excerpted: >> >>> On 07/15/2018 04:37 PM, waxhead wrote: >>

Re: [PATCH 0/4] 3- and 4- copy RAID1

2018-07-17 Thread Duncan
re stored on a different disk As someone else pointed out, md/lvm-raid10 already work like this. What btrfs calls raid10 is somewhat different, but btrfs raid1 pretty much works this way except with huge (gig size) chunks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

Re: how to best segment a big block device in resizeable btrfs filesystems?

2018-07-08 Thread Duncan
Andrei Borzenkov posted on Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:28:48 +0300 as excerpted: > 03.07.2018 10:15, Duncan пишет: >> Andrei Borzenkov posted on Tue, 03 Jul 2018 07:25:14 +0300 as >> excerpted: >> >>> 02.07.2018 21:35, Austin S. Hemmelgarn пишет: >>>> them (tri

Re: unsolvable technical issues?

2018-07-03 Thread Duncan
to matter, even choosing different boot media from the bios doesn't seem to matter by the time the kernel runs (I'm less sure about grub). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." R

Re: how to best segment a big block device in resizeable btrfs filesystems?

2018-07-03 Thread Duncan
ft without any old roots for the usebackuproot mount option to try to fall back to, should it actually be necessary. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- T

Re: btrfs send/receive vs rsync

2018-06-30 Thread Duncan
rent filesystem that's mostly read-only, so less at risk and needing less frequent backups. The tiny boot and large updates (distro repo, sources, ccache) are also separate, and mounted only for boot maintenance or updates. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonf

Re: Major design flaw with BTRFS Raid, temporary device drop will corrupt nodatacow files

2018-06-30 Thread Duncan
opy let alone a backup... well, much like that file in tmpfs, what did they expect? They *really* defined that data as of no more than trivial value, didn't they? All that said, making the NOCOW warning labels a bit more bold print couldn't hurt; and making scrub in the nocow case at least com

Re: unsolvable technical issues?

2018-06-29 Thread Duncan
hat they were supposed to be focused on, which is what we were seeing for awhile. Plus the tools to do the debugging, etc, are far more mature now, another reason bugs should hopefully take less time now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a l

Re: unsolvable technical issues?

2018-06-29 Thread Duncan
Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:26:41 -0400 as excerpted: > On 2018-06-24 16:22, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: >> On 06/23/2018 07:11 AM, Duncan wrote: >>> waxhead posted on Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:13:31 +0200 as excerpted: >>> >>>> Accor

Re: unsolvable technical issues?

2018-06-22 Thread Duncan
a/the main money product, whereas btrfs was always something the btrfs devs used at their employers (oracle, facebook), who have other things as their main product. As such, stratis is much more likely to prioritize things like raid status monitors, hot-spares, etc, that can be part of the product

Re: RAID56

2018-06-20 Thread Duncan
Gandalf Corvotempesta posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:15:03 +0200 as excerpted: > Il giorno mer 20 giu 2018 alle ore 10:34 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > ha scritto: >> Parity-raid is certainly nice, but mandatory, especially when there's >> already other parity

Re: btrfs balance did not progress after 12H

2018-06-20 Thread Duncan
se of the system chunk size from 8 MB original mkfs.btrfs size to 32 MB... only a few KiB used! =:^( -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe

Re: RAID56

2018-06-20 Thread Duncan
on what's in the rest of the stripe, it could still affect files not otherwise written in some time. For metadata, however, it's a huge deal, since an incorrectly reconstructed metadata stripe could take out much or all of the filesystem, depending on what metadata was actually in that stripe. This

Re: [Bug 199931] New: systemd/rtorrent file data corruption when using echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2018-06-08 Thread Duncan
've already said you're not doing that in any form, but just in case, because this is a rather obscure trap people using lvm could find themselves in, without a clue as to the danger, and the resulting symptoms could be rather hard to troubleshoot if this possibility wasn't considered. -- Duncan

Re: RAID-1 refuses to balance large drive

2018-05-28 Thread Duncan
, anything even half modern should have it fixed -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: RAID-1 refuses to balance large drive

2018-05-26 Thread Duncan
focus now and in many cases, should you have problems, the first recommendation is going to be try something newer and see if the problem goes away or presents differently. Or as mentioned, check with your distro if it's a distro kernel, since in that case they're best positioned to support it. -- Dun

Re: csum failed root raveled during balance

2018-05-23 Thread Duncan
etween snapshots). But if you're disabling checksumming anyway, nocow's likely the way to go. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] btrfs: property: Set incompat flag of lzo/zstd compression

2018-05-15 Thread Duncan
kernels that don't have the required compression support. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: dedupe should return EPERM if permission is not granted

2018-05-11 Thread Duncan
>> and 'rust-btrfs' do the same as duperemove and simply report the error >>> (as they should). > --D > >> } else if (file->f_path.mnt != dst_file->f_path.mnt) { >> info->status = -EXDEV; >> } else i

Re: RAID56 - 6 parity raid

2018-05-02 Thread Duncan
ead-modify-write atomicity issue. I'll leave the parity-checksumming debate (now that I know it at least remains debatable) to those more knowledgeable than myself, but in addition to what I've learned of it, I've definitely learned that I can't properly conflate it with the in-place stripe-rmw a

Re: RAID56 - 6 parity raid

2018-05-02 Thread Duncan
Gandalf Corvotempesta posted on Wed, 02 May 2018 19:25:41 + as excerpted: > On 05/02/2018 03:47 AM, Duncan wrote: >> Meanwhile, have you looked at zfs? Perhaps they have something like >> that? > > Yes, i've looked at ZFS and I'm using it on some servers but I don

Re: RAID56 - 6 parity raid

2018-05-01 Thread Duncan
g it's a viable project, presumably it would get support if device- mapper did/has. The stratis article I saw (apparently part 2 in a series): https://opensource.com/article/18/4/stratis-lessons-learned -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a

Re: NVMe SSD + compression - benchmarking

2018-04-29 Thread Duncan
for sanity checking. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in

Re: What is recommended level of btrfs-progs and kernel please

2018-04-29 Thread Duncan
if you have to. --- [1] In general: I think one regular btrfs dev works with SuSE, and one non-dev but well-practiced support list regular is most familiar with Fedora, tho of course Fedora doesn't to be /too/ outdated. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfre

Re: status page

2018-04-25 Thread Duncan
heavy rewrite along with the long testing and bugfix cycle that implies, so ~10 years out if ever, for that. And there's a couple intermediate alternatives as well, but unless something changes I don't really see them going anywhere. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Eve

Re: Btrfs progs release 4.16.1

2018-04-25 Thread Duncan
David Sterba posted on Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:02:34 +0200 as excerpted: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 06:31:20AM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> David Sterba posted on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:58:57 +0200 as excerpted: >> >> > btrfs-progs version 4.16.1 have been released. This

Re: Btrfs progs release 4.16.1

2018-04-25 Thread Duncan
de that's specifically billed as a "bugfix release". (Further support for btrfs being "still stabilizing, not yet fully stable and mature." But development mode habits need to end /sometime/, if stability is indeed a goal.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No H

Re: Recovery from full metadata with all device space consumed?

2018-04-20 Thread Duncan
re nominally 1 GiB so that's probably three 1 GiB chunks allocated, with 2.24 GiB of it used. By contrast, your in-trouble fi usage report will show (near) 0 unallocated and a ***HUGE*** gap between size/total and used for data, while you should be easily able to get per-device data totals down to s

Re: remounted ro during operation, unmountable since

2018-04-15 Thread Duncan
l is a few years old, IIRC (I have 850s, and I think I saw 860s out in something I read probably on this list, but am not sure of it). I suspect the filesystem was created with an old enough btrfs-tools that the default nodesize was still 4K, either due to older distro, or simply due to using

Re: btrfs fails to mount after power outage

2018-04-12 Thread Duncan
tely a tradeoff to consider once you /do/ know it! Presumably that'll be fixed at some point, but not being a dev nor knowing how complex the fix might be, I won't venture a guess as to when, or whether it'd be considered stable-kernel backport material or not, when it happens. -- Duncan - List replies pre

Re: Out of space and incorrect size reported

2018-03-22 Thread Duncan
TS are best supported, so with 4.15 out and 4.16 nearing release, that's the latest 4.15 stable release now, or 4.14, to be 4.16 and 4.15 at 4.16 release, or on the LTS track the previously mentioned 4.14 and 4.9 series, tho at a year old plus, 4.9 is already getting rather harder to support, and 4.14 is ol

Re: grub_probe/grub-mkimage does not find all drives in BTRFS RAID1

2018-03-22 Thread Duncan
c initr* and kernel modules would likely need more space, but your show output says it's only using 342 MiB for data, so as I said your 1 GiB for ~500 MiB usable in dup mode should be quite reasonable.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord,

Re: Raid1 volume stuck as read-only: How to dump, recreate and restore its content?

2018-03-15 Thread Duncan
the latest release and watch for reports of problems with the latest, but certainly, with 4.15 userspace out and no serious reports of new damage from 4.14 userspace, the latter should now be a reasonably safe upgrade. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree pro

Re: Raid1 volume stuck as read-only: How to dump, recreate and restore its content?

2018-03-12 Thread Duncan
p on a different set of physical devices means I don't have to worry about loss of the filesystem or physical devices containing it, either! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master.&q

Re: How to replace a failed drive in btrfs RAID 1 filesystem

2018-03-10 Thread Duncan
yet /entirely/ out of hand, either, because a successful guess based on available information should be possible without /too/ many attempts. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is

Re: spurious full btrfs corruption

2018-03-06 Thread Duncan
rfs is a possibility as well, but nocow on btrfs has enough limits and caveats that I consider it a second-class "really should have used a different filesystem for this but didn't want to bother setting up a dedicated one" choice, and as such, don't consider it a viable option here. -

Re: btrfs space used issue

2018-03-02 Thread Duncan
y newly created files/ subdirs within it. [2] Many apps that preallocate by default have an option to turn preallocation off. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallma

Re: btrfs space used issue

2018-02-28 Thread Duncan
e file, and a recent "bugfix" changed that so it's more in line with the normal autodefrag behavior. I rather preferred the old behavior, especially since I'm on fast ssd and all my large files tend to be write- once no-rewrite anyway, but I understand the performance implications on large

Re: btrfs space used issue

2018-02-28 Thread Duncan
ry purpose is telling you in detail what space files take up, per-file and per- directory, without particular regard to usage on the filesystem itself. df's focus, by contrast, is on the filesystem as a whole. So where two files share the same extent due to reflinking, du should and does coun

Re: Ongoing Btrfs stability issues

2018-02-16 Thread Duncan
ffect could still be creating problems on the 4.14 kernel servers for the moment. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: fatal database corruption with btrfs "out of space" with ~50 GB left

2018-02-14 Thread Duncan
anted you could do the same with -musage for metadata, except that's not so bad, only 9 gig size, 3 gig used. But you could free 5 gigs or so, if desired. That's assuming there's no problem. I see a followup indicating you're seeing problems in dmesg with a balance, however, and will let others

Re: Status of FST and mount times

2018-02-14 Thread Duncan
en numbers were for level 1 and 2, with level 0 not holding anything, not levels 0 and 1. But that wouldn't jive with your level 0 example, which I would assume could never happen if it couldn't hold even a single entry. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonf

Re: fatal database corruption with btrfs "out of space" with ~50 GB left

2018-02-14 Thread Duncan
.13 series and early 4.14-rcs and was fixed by 4.14.0. The bug seemed to trigger most frequently when doing balances or other major writes to the filesystem, on middle to large sized filesystems. (My all under quarter-TB each btrfs didn't appear to be affected.) -- Duncan - List replies

Re: Status of FST and mount times

2018-02-14 Thread Duncan
u're not trying to use the "archive application" targeted SMR drives for general purpose use. Occasionally people will try to buy and use such drives in general purpose use due to their cheaper per-TB cost, and it just doesn't go well. We've had a number of reports of that. =:^( --

Re: btrfs - kernel warning

2018-02-04 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018 02:49:52 + as excerpted: > As CMurphy says, 4.11-ish is starting to be reasonable. But you're on > the LTS kernel 4.14 series and userspace 4.14 was developed in parallel, > so btrfs-progs-3.14 would be ideal. Umm... obviously that shoul

Re: btrfs - kernel warning

2018-02-01 Thread Duncan
time trying to recover data from a messed up filesystem, especially given that there's no guarantee you'll get it all back undamaged even if you /do/ spend time time. It's often simpler and takes less time, as well as more success-sure, to simply blow away the defective filesystem with a fresh mkfs

Re: degraded permanent mount option

2018-01-28 Thread Duncan
Andrei Borzenkov posted on Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:06:06 +0300 as excerpted: > 27.01.2018 18:22, Duncan пишет: >> Adam Borowski posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:26:41 +0100 as excerpted: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:06:19PM +0100, Tomasz Pala wrote: >>>> On

Re: degraded permanent mount option

2018-01-27 Thread Duncan
d has to do is leave the mount alone that the kernel has already done, instead of insisting it knows what's going on better than the kernel does, and immediately umounting it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use

Re: bad key ordering - repairable?

2018-01-24 Thread Duncan
ain system's aging too, so I better start thinking of replacing it again...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Periodic frame losses when recording to btrfs volume with OBS

2018-01-23 Thread Duncan
ein posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:38:13 +0100 as excerpted: > On 01/22/2018 09:59 AM, Duncan wrote: >> >> And to tie up a loose end, xfs has somewhat different design principles >> and may well not be particularly sensitive to the dirty_* settings, >> while btrfs,

Re: Periodic frame losses when recording to btrfs volume with OBS

2018-01-22 Thread Duncan
ence. =:^) And to tie up a loose end, xfs has somewhat different design principles and may well not be particularly sensitive to the dirty_* settings, while btrfs, due to COW and other design choices, is likely more sensitive to them than the widely used ext* and reiserfs (my old choice and th

Re: btrfs volume corrupt. btrfs-progs bug or need to rebuild volume?

2018-01-19 Thread Duncan
consider a layered approach, with btrfs raid1 on top of a pair of mdraid0s (or dmraid0s, or hardware raid0s). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsub

Re: big volumes only work reliable with ssd_spread

2018-01-15 Thread Duncan
what you are seeing. =:^) If that's the case, then arguably the option is misnamed and the ssd_spread name may well at some point be deprecated in favor of something more descriptive of its actual function and target devices. Purely my own speculation here, but perhaps something like vla_spread (very-l

Re: Hanging after frequent use of systemd-nspawn --ephemeral

2018-01-14 Thread Duncan
d the like to clean up. And qgroups makes btrfs do much more work to track that as well, so as Qu says, that'll make snapshot deletion take even longer, and you probably want it disabled unless you actually need the feature for something you're doing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTM

Re: Limit on the number of btrfs snapshots?

2018-01-14 Thread Duncan
il-overs to the backups and recycles the previous working filesystem devices, so a balance or a check taking three years isn't an issue because they don't tend to run those sorts of commands in the first place. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree p

Re: Recommendations for balancing as part of regular maintenance?

2018-01-11 Thread Duncan
else (hardware, software layers other than the filesystem) may be in use. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: Recommendations for balancing as part of regular maintenance?

2018-01-09 Thread Duncan
riately and ensure they're done before starting the next task. And keep in mind the scheduled tasks when running things manually, so as not to collide there either. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the p

Re: btrfs scrub not repair corruption

2018-01-09 Thread Duncan
as, -fno-something, IIRC. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs&q

Re: btrfs quota exceeded notifications through netlink sockets

2018-01-06 Thread Duncan
id layout or checking and trying to repair a filesystem that won't mount. Since normal runtime performance isn't particularly affected, quotas tend to be fine for such use-cases. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the

Re: A Big Thank You, and some Notes on Current Recovery Tools.

2018-01-01 Thread Duncan
of mdraid0s (or alike, dmraid0s, hardware raid0s, etc), since that performs better than btrfs raid10, and removes a confusing tho not harmful if properly understood layout ambiguity of btrfs raid10 as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has

Re: A Big Thank You, and some Notes on Current Recovery Tools.

2017-12-31 Thread Duncan
e technical skill, but would be far more likely to just accept the damage as reality and fall back to the backups such as they are, than actually invest the time in either getting that fix or knowing for sure that it /can't/ be fixed. The signature I've seen, something about the unreasonable man

Re: btrfs balance problems

2017-12-27 Thread Duncan
lling back to backup and redoing the filesystem from scratch is simpler/faster and more reliable than trying to balance to a different btrfs layout or check their way out of trouble. [3] Ionicing btrfs balance kernel worker threads: Simplest would be to have balance take parameters fo

Re: Unexpected raid1 behaviour

2017-12-22 Thread Duncan
t required, as I know, because I had dracut setup without the systemd module for some time after I switched to systemd for my main sysinit, and I verified it didn't install systemd in the initr* until I activated the systemd module. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

Re: Unexpected raid1 behaviour

2017-12-22 Thread Duncan
esources necessary to do them, and some day, maybe 10 minutes from now, maybe 10 years from now, fate's going to call you on that definition! (Yes, I know /you/ know that or we'd not have this thread, which demonstrates that you /do/ care about your data. But it's as much about the lurk

Re: kernel hangs during balance

2017-12-20 Thread Duncan
bug there would still be in the concern for a fix range, while 4.4... really is just out of the focus range for this list, tho various longer focus distros will of course still provide support for it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a l

Re: Unexpected raid1 behaviour

2017-12-20 Thread Duncan
ice=, but that's simply dangerous for routine use regardless of whether it actually assembled or not, thus effectively forcing an initr* for multi-device btrfs root in ordered to get it mounted properly. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord,

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