Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-03 Thread George Mitchell
On 06/02/2013 07:58 PM, Liu Bo wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:11:10PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: On 06/02/2013 06:28 PM, Liu Bo wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am

Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread George Mitchell
I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them. My bandaid fix for this will be to mark the /var filesystem nodatacow at boot. But I am wondering if their is any way to flag a particular directory as nodatacow

Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread Liu Bo
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them. My bandaid fix for this will be to mark the /var filesystem nodatacow at boot. But I am wondering if

Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread George Mitchell
On 06/02/2013 06:28 PM, Liu Bo wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them. My bandaid fix for this will be to mark the /var filesystem

Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread George Mitchell
On 06/02/2013 06:28 PM, Liu Bo wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them. My bandaid fix for this will be to mark the /var filesystem

Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread Liu Bo
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:19:50PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: On 06/02/2013 06:28 PM, Liu Bo wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them.

Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread Liu Bo
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:11:10PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: On 06/02/2013 06:28 PM, Liu Bo wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them.

Re: Is there a way to flag specific directories nodatacow?

2013-06-02 Thread A. C. Censi
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:11 PM, George Mitchell geo...@chinilu.com wrote: So I want to try forcing nodatacow on this directory and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I suppose the next step will be to place this one directory on an ext4 filesystem and mount it externally to the btrfs