btrfs recovery: What do the commands actually do?

2013-10-04 Thread Martin
There's ad-hoc comment for various commands to recover from filesystem errors. But what do they actually do and when should what command be used? (The wiki gives scant indication other than to 'blindly' try things...) There's: mount -o recovery,noatime btrfsck: --repair

Re: btrfs recovery: What do the commands actually do?

2013-10-04 Thread Duncan
Martin posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:47:19 +0100 as condensed: There's ad-hoc comment for various commands to recover from filesystem errors. But what do they actually do and when should what command be used? What do they do exactly and what are the indicators to try using them? Or when

Re: btrfs recovery: What do the commands actually do?

2013-10-04 Thread Martin
On 04/10/13 19:32, Duncan wrote: Martin posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:47:19 +0100 as condensed: There's ad-hoc comment for various commands to recover from filesystem errors. But what do they actually do and when should what command be used? What do they do exactly and what are the