Re: Scrub: no spae left on device

[Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@bouton.name>]

Le 08/12/2015 16:06, Marc MERLIN a écrit :
> Howdy,
>
> Why would scrub need space and why would it cancel if there isn't enough of
> it?
> (kernel 4.3)
>
> /etc/cron.daily/btrfs-scrub:
> btrfs scrub start -Bd /dev/mapper/cryptroot
> scrub device /dev/mapper/cryptroot (id 1) done
> 	scrub started at Mon Dec  7 01:35:08 2015 and finished after 258 seconds
> 	total bytes scrubbed: 130.84GiB with 0 errors
> btrfs scrub start -Bd /dev/mapper/pool1
> ERROR: scrubbing /dev/mapper/pool1 failed for device id 1 (No space left on device)
> scrub device /dev/mapper/pool1 (id 1) canceled

I can't be sure (not-a-dev), but one possibility that comes to mind is
that if an error is detected writes must be done on the device. The
repair might not be done in-place but with CoW and even if the error is
not repaired by lack of redundancy IIRC each device tracks the number of
errors detected so I assume this is written somewhere (system or
metadata chunks most probably).

Best regards,

Lionel