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From: "Jérôme Carretero" <cJ-ko@zougloub.eu>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Subject: Re: Troublesome failure mode and recovery
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:58:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130715075811.4bb5c090@Bidule> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130713121404.65fc89ea@Bidule>

On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:14:04 -0400
Jérôme Carretero <cJ-ko@zougloub.eu> wrote:

> Within the UML instance with python, I cannot do `ls` (`os.listdir()`)
> on my home folder (`/home/cJ`), and btrfs-restore only restores
> a few dot files in there.
> But I can get inode numbers and read files or subdirectories beyond
> this folder.

I was able to recover the "critical" data this way (mounted a second image
and ran python,busybox and rsync to salvage the data at known locations under
the problematic directory).

Right now, I think that 2-3 sections of medatata had been overridden by data
very recently. These sections are very small, so I don't think it was a discard
issue. And I think this must have been provoked somehow by older crashes a few
weeks ago.

My disk image is still there in case someone wants to play with it.

Regards,

-- 
Jérôme

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-13 16:14 Troublesome failure mode and recovery Jérôme Carretero
2013-07-14  9:54 ` Duncan
2013-07-15 11:58 ` Jérôme Carretero [this message]

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