Re: BTRFS raid6 unmountable after a couple of days of usage.

[Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>]

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On 2015-07-14 07:49, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> So, after experiencing this same issue multiple times (on almost a dozen different kernel versions since 4.0) and ruling out the possibility of it being caused by my hardware (or at least, the RAM, SATA controller and disk drives themselves), I've decided to report it here.
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> The general symptom is that raid6 profile filesystems that I have are working fine for multiple weeks, until I either reboot or otherwise try to remount them, at which point the system refuses to mount them.
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> I'm currently using btrfs-progs v4.1 with kernel 4.1.2, although I've been seeing this with versions of both since 4.0.
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> Output of 'btrfs fi show' for the most recent fs that I had this issue with:
>          Label: 'altroot'  uuid: 86eef6b9-febe-4350-a316-4cb00c40bbc5
> 	Total devices 4 FS bytes used 9.70GiB
> 	devid    1 size 24.00GiB used 6.03GiB path /dev/mapper/vg-altroot.0
> 	devid    2 size 24.00GiB used 6.01GiB path /dev/mapper/vg-altroot.1
> 	devid    3 size 24.00GiB used 6.01GiB path /dev/mapper/vg-altroot.2
> 	devid    4 size 24.00GiB used 6.01GiB path /dev/mapper/vg-altroot.3
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>          btrfs-progs v4.1
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> Each of the individual LVS that are in the FS is just a flat chunk of space on a separate disk from the others.
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> The FS itself passes btrfs check just fine (no reported errors, exit value of 0), but the kernel refuses to mount it with the message 'open_ctree failed'.
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> I've run btrfs chunk recover and attached the output from that.
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> Here's a link to an image from 'btrfs image -c9 -w': https://www.dropbox.com/s/pl7gs305ej65u9q/altroot.btrfs.img?dl=0
> (That link will expire in 30 days, let me know if you need access to it beyond that).
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> The filesystems in question all see relatively light but consistent usage as targets for receiving daily incremental snapshots for on-system backups (and because I know someone will mention it, yes, I do have other backups of the data, these are just my online backups).
>
Further updates, I just tried mounting the filesystem from the image 
above again, this time passing device= options for each device in the 
FS, and it seems to be working fine now.  I've tried this with the other 
filesystems however, and they still won't mount.


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