Re: Btrfs Check - "type mismatch with chunk"

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

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On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 15:34 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> >What exactly was that bug in 4.1.1 mkfs and how would one notice
> > that
> > one suffers from it?
> > I created a number of personal filesystems that I use
> > "productively" and
> > I'm not 100% sure during which version I've created them... :/
> > 
> > Is there some easy way to find out, like a fs creation time stamp??
> 
> I believe a current btrfs check will flag the errors, but can't fix
> them, 
> as the problem was in the filesystem creation and is simply too deep
> to 
> fix, so the bad filesystems must be wiped and recreated with a
> mkfs.btrfs 
> without the bug, to fix.
If I didn't mix things up, there was a post by someone just few days
ago, which showed the error that would pop up on fsck.


> the 
> people volunteering (directly or indirectly) to do that coding
> scratch, 
> or choose not to scratch by spending their time and/or resources 
> elsewhere, their own itches in the priority they choose.
Sure that,'s all clear.
And obviously I didn't want to distract anyone from working on it. It's
just if those people wouldn't care on which part of btrfs they're
working,... than I'd have considered btrfs-convert rather just a nice-
to have.


> It's the same reason that I as a kde user who finds the gnome "dumb-
> down" 
> approach horribly frustrating, remain extremely glad there's a gnome 
> project for those who approve of that sort of approach to work on -- 
I'd rather have wished that all those guys get hired by Apple or MS ;-)


Cheers,
Chris.

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