Re: Recovery advice

2013-08-05 Thread Sandy McArthur
FYI: I ended up wipefs'ing the drive and adding it back in. I also has to abort the residual balance process to get the filesystem back to a state where I could add disk. I didn't realize this until after wiping the drive. Maybe if I'd known to look for that I could have recovered the drive before

Re: Recovery advice

2013-08-04 Thread Kai Krakow
Sandy McArthur sandy...@gmail.com schrieb: I have a 4 disk RAID1 setup that fails to {mount,btrfsck} when disk 4 is connected. With disk 4 attached btrfsck errors with: btrfsck: root-tree.c:46: btrfs_find_last_root: Assertion `!(path-slots[0] == 0)' failed (I'd have to reboot in a

Re: Recovery advice

2013-08-04 Thread Duncan
Kai Krakow posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:41:54 +0200 as excerpted: It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss because all data is stored twice (two-way mirroring). The caveat would be if it didn't

Re: Recovery advice

2013-08-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 4, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Kai Krakow posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:41:54 +0200 as excerpted: It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss because all data is

Re: Recovery advice

2013-08-04 Thread Kai Krakow
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net schrieb: It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss because all data is stored twice (two-way mirroring). The caveat would be if it didn't start as btrfs raid1, and

Recovery advice

2013-07-26 Thread Sandy McArthur
I have a 4 disk RAID1 setup that fails to {mount,btrfsck} when disk 4 is connected. With disk 4 attached btrfsck errors with: btrfsck: root-tree.c:46: btrfs_find_last_root: Assertion `!(path-slots[0] == 0)' failed (I'd have to reboot in a non-functioning state to get the full output.) I can