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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Kenny MacDermid <kenny.macdermid@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Input/Output errors
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:56:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160224015658.GY22487@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160224004045.GA20632@gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 08:40:46PM -0400, Kenny MacDermid wrote:
> I'm running btrfs on DM-Crypt Luks running on LVM.
> 
> Occasionally I get files that are unreadable for some period of time.
> Attempting to read from them results in an 
> 
> Input/output error
> 
> Sometimes they'll come back on their own, and sometimes a scrub seems to
> help, but sometimes I just have to delete them.
> 
> Nothing shows up in dmesg when these occur, and I can't predict which
> files it will be, or what causes it.
> 
> It's currently happening running 4.4.1-2-ARCH, but I've seen the same
> thing for many previous kernel versions.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

That's weird to say the least, you should at least get *something* in
dmesg.
And you are getting other error messages and btrfs kernel messages in
your logs?

When whatever app you have that's trying to read them fails, I assume
they also fail with cat or less?

Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-24  0:40 Input/Output errors Kenny MacDermid
2016-02-24  1:56 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2016-02-24  3:02   ` Kenny MacDermid
2016-02-24  4:37     ` Chris Murphy
2016-02-24  8:58       ` Szalma László
2016-02-24 18:13         ` Kenny MacDermid
2016-02-24 18:02       ` Kenny MacDermid

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