From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Lubos Kolouch <lubos.kolouch@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question of stability
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:50:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100922225029.GA2309@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i7d2e9$147$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:04:57PM +0000, Lubos Kolouch wrote:
> Chris Mason, Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:13:07 -0400:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:10:08PM +0000, Lubos Kolouch wrote:
> >> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:30:57 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:00:08AM +0000, Lubos Kolouch wrote:
> >> >> No, not stable!
> >> >>
> >> >> Again, after powerloss, I have *two* damaged btrfs filesystems.
> >> >
> >> > Please tell me more about your system. I do extensive power fail
> >> > testing here without problems, and corruptions after powerloss are
> >> > very often caused by the actual hardware.
> >> >
> >> > So, what kind of drives do you have, do they have writeback caching
> >> > on, and what are you layering on top of the drive between btrfs and
> >> > the kernel?
> >> >
> >> > -chris
> >> >
> >> >
> >> Hello Chris,
> >>
> >> The system is running with 128GB SDD Samsung disk. The partition is
> >> encrypted with LUKS and on top btrfs filesystem is created.
> >
> > Ok, we're seeing consistent reports of corruptions after power failure
> > with dm-crypt. The barriers must not be getting down to the device.
> >
> >
> >> The backup disk is a 160GB WD notebook disk connected via IDE->USB
> >> cable, whole formatted with LUKS and btrfs on top.
> >>
> >> Actually, if there was any way (non-standard) how to mount the system
> >> and recover even part of the data, I would be very grateful.
> >
> > We can definitely try. Please send me email with the errors from
> > btrfsck and I'll work on a patch that gets you read only access.
>
> Just for the record - thanks to Chris I could recover the data in read-
> only mode, thanks again.
>
> So are there any recommendations (mount options etc.) for running btrfs
> on LUKS encrypted partition?
I would suggest turning off the drives writeback cache. hdparm -W 0, it
must be run after every boot.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 21:37 Question of stability Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2010-09-18 21:55 ` Hendrik Fabelje
2010-09-18 23:55 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2010-09-19 0:43 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-09-19 2:00 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2010-09-19 4:50 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-09-20 15:12 ` K. Richard Pixley
2010-09-20 15:27 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-09-19 9:51 ` Hugo Mills
2010-09-20 1:18 ` Chris Samuel
2010-09-20 11:00 ` Lubos Kolouch
2010-09-20 11:30 ` Chris Mason
2010-09-20 12:10 ` Lubos Kolouch
2010-09-20 12:13 ` Chris Mason
2010-09-22 14:04 ` Lubos Kolouch
2010-09-22 22:50 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2010-09-20 12:21 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2010-09-20 12:27 ` Chris Mason
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