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From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
To: Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware failure or btrfs issue?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:29:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702072915.GA8170@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D2091E.9010800@petezilla.co.uk>

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Peter Chant wrote:
> Sirs,
> 
> my recently slowing file system is now going read only after trying
> a defrag or other operation.  I'm wondering whether this is the
> result of a hardware failure or a btrfs or some other issue.  Output
> of dmesg:

[snip]
> [  127.862825] btrfs: corrupt leaf, bad key order:
> block=2837196627968,root=1, slot=121
[snip]

   This is usually an indication that you have bad hardware -- I'd
suggest testing RAM, PSU, CPU in that order. I'm not sure what, if
anything, can be done to fix the error on the disk right now.

> Not that I've done anything other than a cursory check but it looks
> like the read only data is fine.

   Might be a good idea to use that to refresh your backups, just in
case my prediction about the fixability is correct.

   Hugo.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-01 22:56 Hardware failure or btrfs issue? Peter Chant
2013-07-02  7:29 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2013-07-02 17:36   ` Peter Chant
2013-07-02 17:48     ` Hugo Mills
2013-07-02 21:37       ` Peter Chant

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