Re: problem replacing failing drive

[sam tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>]

On 22/10/12 10:07, sam tygier wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have a 2 drive btrfs raid set up. It was created first with a single drive, and then adding a second and doing
> btrfs fi balance start -dconvert=raid1 /data
> 
> the original drive is showing smart errors so i want to replace it. i dont easily have space in my desktop for an extra disk, so i decided to proceed by shutting down. taking out the old failing drive and putting in the new drive. this is similar to the description at
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices#Replacing_Failed_Devices
> (the other reason to try this is to simulate what would happen if a drive did completely fail).
> 
> so after swapping the drives and rebooting, i try to mount as degraded. i instantly get a kernel panic, http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/sam/pub/IMG_5397_crop.png
> 
> so far all this has been with 3.5 kernel. so i upgraded to 3.6.2 and tried to mount degraded again.
> 
> first with just sudo mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt, then with sudo mount -o degraded /dev/sdd2 /mnt
> 
> [  582.535689] device label bdata devid 1 transid 25342 /dev/sdd2
> [  582.536196] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled
> [  582.536602] btrfs: failed to read the system array on sdd2
> [  582.536860] btrfs: open_ctree failed
> [  606.784176] device label bdata devid 1 transid 25342 /dev/sdd2
> [  606.784647] btrfs: allowing degraded mounts
> [  606.784650] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled
> [  606.785131] btrfs: failed to read chunk root on sdd2
> [  606.785331] btrfs warning page private not zero on page 3222292922368
> [  606.785408] btrfs: open_ctree failed
> [  782.422959] device label bdata devid 1 transid 25342 /dev/sdd2
> 
> no panic is good progress, but something is still not right.
> 
> my options would seem to be
> 1) reconnect old drive (probably in a USB caddy), see if it mounts as if nothing ever happened. or possibly try and recover it back to a working raid1. then try again with adding the new drive first, then removing the old one.
> 2) give up experimenting and create a new btrfs raid1, and restore from backup
> 
> both leave me with a worry about what would happen if a disk in a raid 1 did die. (unless is was the panic that did some damage that borked the filesystem.)

Some more details.

If i reconnect the failing drive then I can mount the filesystem with no errors, a quick glance suggests that the data is all there.

Label: 'bdata'  uuid: 1f07081c-316b-48be-af73-49e6f76535cc
	Total devices 2 FS bytes used 2.50TB
	devid    2 size 2.73TB used 2.73TB path /dev/sde1 <-- this is the drive that i wish to remove
	devid    1 size 2.73TB used 2.73TB path /dev/sdd2

sudo btrfs filesystem df /mnt
Data, RAID1: total=2.62TB, used=2.50TB
System, DUP: total=40.00MB, used=396.00KB
System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00
Metadata, DUP: total=112.00GB, used=3.84GB
Metadata: total=8.00MB, used=0.00

is the failure to mount when i remove sde due to it being dup, rather than raid1?

is adding a second drive to a btrfs filesystem and running
btrfs fi balance start -dconvert=raid1 /mnt
not sufficient to create an array that can survive the loss of a disk? do i need -mconvert as well? is there an -sconvert for system?

thanks

Sam