Re: Crash in __btrfs_reserve_extent

Tore Anderson
2009-08-06T22:01:51Z

Hi,

* Josef Bacik

>> Sorry about all of this, hopefully a better solution will be
>> coming down in a few months.

Don't be - the only reason why I'm running btrfs at this point is to
test and hopefully help out improving it by reporting the problems I'm
running into. :-)

Thanks for the suggestions!

* Chris Mason

> We can code a fix for the balancer problem quickly, but you might
> have a hard time recompiling it and getting it on that box.
>
> If this data is critical we'll write something up.

There's no critical data on this filesystem, it's only used for my
Fedora installation. Won't take me long to re-install from scratch if
that's what it takes. All og my important data (home directory) is on
NFS. Using NFS I can easily get new versions of btrfs-progs onto the
box with the hosed btrfs, too.

So if you meant to code up the fix as a band-aid only for me, don't
bother (but thanks for the offer)! On the other hand, if you wanted to
get such a fix into btrfs-progs anyway I'll be happy to test it out for you.

Best regards,
--
Tore Anderson
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