Re: cleanup after a small data loss on incorrect shutdown.

Michael Raskin
2009-06-12T18:52:57Z

>> That's all. Reading one of the damaged file actually returned
>> "Input/output error" - probably it tried to read beyond end-of-device. I
>> had to kill this file (practical testing means that to continue to use
>> my notebook normally I had to nuke the damaged file and get intact
>> copies). The "no such file except in readdir" is still there right now.
>
> Ok, btrfsck will give us more output when it finishes, but it hasn't
> finished. It would help to use btrfs-image to send us a coyp of the
> metadata so we can fix the btrfsck bug.

I have a 74M compressed btrfs-image of a partition with a ghost file (I
sent btrfsck logs earlier). Would they be of any use in debugging
handling of such situations? If yes - how should I transmit the image
file? How can I kill the ghost file?