Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-11-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On 01/11/10 23:20, cwillu wrote: > Problems resulting from powerloss should be limited to faulty hardware > (in which case you're screwed regardless of the filesystem) and lack > of barrier support (which should show up in dmesg soon after the first > write goes to disk). Note that for until 2.6.

Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-11-01 Thread cwillu
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, Felix, > > Du meintest am 01.11.10: > >  btrfs-convert: extent-tree.c:2529: btrfs_reserve_extent: > Assertion     `!(ret)' failed >  Abgebrochen > Try btrfs-convert -r /dev/xxx, hopefully it will recover your ext2. > >>

Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-11-01 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Felix, Du meintest am 01.11.10:  btrfs-convert: extent-tree.c:2529: btrfs_reserve_extent: Assertion     `!(ret)' failed  Abgebrochen >>> Try btrfs-convert -r /dev/xxx, hopefully it will recover your ext2. >> Restoring is (now) no problem, I'm still testing. But in some day

Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-11-01 Thread Felix Blanke
Hi Helmut, don't use btrfs for important files if you got no backup yet. It's quite stable and a lot of ppl don't have problem with it, but there are some cases where it could be very ugly, like a powerloss while writing etc. Regards, Felix Am 01 Nov 2010 09:02:00 +0100 schrieb "Helmut Hullen"

Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-11-01 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Yan, Du meintest am 01.11.10: >> I've tried to convert a 12 GByte ext2 partition (nearly full, 280 >> MByte free) with btrfs-convert. >> >> After about 15 minutes (700-MHz-CPU) the system tells >> >>  ... >>  creating ext2fs image file >>  cleaning up system chunk >>  btrfs-convert: extent

Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-10-31 Thread Yan, Zheng
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, linux-btrfs, > > I've tried to convert a 12 GByte ext2 partition (nearly full, 280 MByte > free) with btrfs-convert. > > After about 15 minutes (700-MHz-CPU) the system tells > >  ... >  creating ext2fs image file >  cleaning up syste

Re: btrfs-convert fails

2010-10-31 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, I wrote am 31.10.10 zum Thema btrfs-convert fails: > I've tried to convert a 12 GByte ext2 partition (nearly full, 280 > MByte free) with btrfs-convert. > After about 15 minutes (700-MHz-CPU) the system tells > ... > creating ext2fs image file > cleaning up system chunk > btrfs-c