Re: BTRFS RAID5 filesystem corruption during balance

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Chris Murphy posted on Fri, 22 May 2015 13:15:09 -0600 as excerpted:

> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>> For in-production use, therefore, btrfs raid56 mode, while now at least
>> in theory complete, is really too immature at this point to recommend.
> 
> At some point perhaps a developer will have time to state the expected
> stability level on stable hardware. And what things should be included
> in a complete report. I see many reports only including the bug/ Warning
> with call trace. And too often problems were happening before that.
> 
> The XFS FAQ has an explicit "what to include in a report" other that may
> serve as a guide to adapt for Btrfs reports.

There's one spot on the wiki (bottom of the btrfs mailing lists page) that
lists the information to provide when filing a bug.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_mailing_list

But, even being somewhat familiar with the wiki and knowing it was, or had
been, somewhere on the wiki, I had trouble finding it.  It's definitely
not in the first place I looked, the Problem FAQ, under How do I report
bugs and issues?  (Tho it does link to the list page.)

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Problem_FAQ#How_do_I_report_bugs_and_issues.3F

If I had ever gotten around to getting a wiki login, I'd fix that, but for
some reason, while I seem to be fine posting to newsgroups and
mailinglists (as newsgroups, via gmane.org's list2news service), I mostly
treat the web, wikis included, as read-only, other than the occasional
reply to an article.  I never got into web forums that much either.

So if you have a wiki login and time to fix it... =:^)

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