Re: scub neither running nor canceling nor can be restarted.

[Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Hello Vikram,

On 12/09/2013 05:51 PM, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a problem where a stuck scrub on root FS cannot be
> cancelled or restsrted.
>
> Please See:
> [root@mail2 ~]# btrfs filesystem show
> Label: fedora_mail2  uuid: d2b3420c-99c1-44cc-a922-ac266072c7fb
> Total devices 2 FS bytes used 58.88GiB
> devid    2 size 73.51GiB used 31.03GiB path /dev/sdb6
> devid    3 size 73.30GiB used 32.03GiB path /dev/sda2
>
> Label: Vikram  uuid: 0809b072-35f3-4866-92b8-af4772b23ed6
> Total devices 2 FS bytes used 98.05GiB
> devid    1 size 158.03GiB used 99.04GiB path /dev/mapper/sda3
> devid    2 size 157.00GiB used 99.03GiB path /dev/dm-1
>
> Btrfs v3.12
> [root@mail2 ~]# btrfs scrub status -d /
> scrub status for d2b3420c-99c1-44cc-a922-ac266072c7fb
> scrub device /dev/sdb6 (id 2) status
> scrub started at Thu Apr 18 13:51:13 2013, running for 105 seconds
> total bytes scrubbed: 3.81GiB with 0 errors
> scrub device /dev/sda2 (id 3) status
> scrub started at Thu Apr 18 13:51:13 2013, running for 105 seconds
> total bytes scrubbed: 4.34GiB with 0 errors
>
> [root@mail2 ~]# btrfs scrub cancel /
> ERROR: scrub cancel failed on /: not running
>
> [root@mail2 ~]# btrfs scrub start -Bd /
> ERROR: scrub is already running.
> To cancel use 'btrfs scrub cancel /'.
> To see the status use 'btrfs scrub status [-d] /'.

I came the same issue before and i sent a patch for this:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3264051/

This patch has been merged into David's integration branch.
You can pull from:

https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs.git integration-20131206

you can use:
# btrfs scrub start -f /

This should help, -f will force us to skip check in userspace.

Thanks,
Wang
> Thanks!