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From: Sean Greenslade <sean@seangreenslade.com>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Post ext3 conversion problems
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:03:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160917000302.GA1156@coach.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJCQCtSW0zrWdYgWsWmokBDGBY8Lkd0E-cKKmBf7CfoZdR5aFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 05:45:59PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Sean Greenslade
> <sean@seangreenslade.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the mean time, is there any way to make the kernel more verbose about
> > btrfs errors? It would be nice to see, for example, what was in the
> > transaction that failed, or at least what files / metadata it was
> > touching.
> 
> No idea. Maybe one of the compile time options:
> 
> 
> CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY=y
> This also requires mount options, either check_int or check_int_data
> CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS
> CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG=y
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/846462/
> CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT=y
> 
> Actually, even before that maybe if you did a 'btrfs-debug-tree /dev/sdX'
> 
> That might explode in the vicinity of the problem. Thing is, btrfs
> check doesn't see anything wrong with the metadata, so chances are
> debug-tree won't either.

Hmm, I'll probably have a go at compiling the latest mainline kernel
with CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG enabled. It certainly can't hurt to try.

And as you suspected, btrfs-debug-tree didn't explode / error out on me.
I didn't thoroughly inspect the output (as I have very little
understanding of the btrfs internals), but it all seemed OK.

--Sean


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-17  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-16 19:25 Post ext3 conversion problems Sean Greenslade
2016-09-16 20:23 ` Chris Murphy
2016-09-16 23:25   ` Sean Greenslade
2016-09-16 23:45     ` Chris Murphy
2016-09-17  0:03       ` Sean Greenslade [this message]
2016-09-19  2:20   ` Qu Wenruo
2016-09-19  4:12     ` Sean Greenslade
2016-09-19  6:30       ` Qu Wenruo
2016-09-19 15:13         ` Sean Greenslade
2016-09-20  2:49           ` Qu Wenruo
2016-09-20  3:39             ` Sean Greenslade
2016-09-20  5:02               ` Qu Wenruo
2016-09-20 20:51                 ` Sean Greenslade
2016-09-26  2:16                   ` Sean Greenslade
2016-09-26  2:37                     ` Qu Wenruo
2016-09-17  2:27 ` Liu Bo
2016-09-17  4:16   ` Sean Greenslade

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