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From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: Thiago Ramon <thiagoramon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Subject: Re: strangely uncorrectable errors with RAID-5
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:51:19 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3813747.MHq7AAxBmi@cupcakke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO1Y9wpT=gZgWD0=69TUefB-+qOSEY+9+zypo89PMQdgdO_P9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday, 15 March 2025 06:32:46 AEDT Thiago Ramon wrote:
> > while true ; do
> > 
> >   for DEV in c d e f ; do
> >   
> >     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vd$DEV oseek=$((20+$RANDOM%3*1000)) bs=1024k
> > 
> > count=1000
> > 
> >     sync
> >     btrfs scrub start -B /mnt
> >     sync
> >   
> >   done
> >   date
> > 
> > done
> 
> Your script is writing randomly to ALL your disks. You just need to
> get lucky for them to overwrite the same sector in 2 different disks
> to ruin RAID5 and RAID1. If you want to stress test the filesystem you
> need to pay more attention to what you're doing.

Are you saying that the btrfs scrub is not designed to correct the errors?

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-15  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-20 10:09 strangely uncorrectable errors with RAID-5 Russell Coker
2024-10-20 21:01 ` Qu Wenruo
2024-10-21  3:55   ` Russell Coker
2024-10-21  4:26     ` Qu Wenruo
2025-03-14 12:27       ` Russell Coker
2025-03-14 16:54         ` Russell Coker
2025-03-14 19:32           ` Thiago Ramon
2025-03-15  2:51             ` Russell Coker [this message]
2025-03-15  5:19             ` Andrei Borzenkov

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