From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1207.opentransfer.com ([98.130.1.227]:50003 "EHLO mail1207.opentransfer.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755480AbbHYPx6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:53:58 -0400 Message-ID: <55DC8F94.1020200@friendlyvirus.org> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:53:56 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWlndWVsIE5lZ3LDo28=?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Ruffalo , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Btrfs tragedy: lack of space for metadata leads to loss of fs. References: <55DC8718.8060209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55DC8718.8060209@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 25-08-2015 16:17, Matt Ruffalo wrote: > On 2015-08-25 09:44, Miguel Negrão wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> This weekend had my first btrfs horror story. >> >> system: 3.13.0-49-lowlatency, btrfs-progs v4.1.2 >> >> A disclaimer: I know 3.13 is very out of date, but I the requirement of >> keeping kernel up to date clashes with my requirement of keeping a stable >> system. At the moment I can't disturb my system as I'm doing important work, >> upgrading kernel requires upgrading ubuntu, which will upgrade a lot of >> packages and might lead to problems which I don't have time to fix. One >> might argue that in the end I lost time anyway dealing with these btrfs >> issues. When I'm done with this current work I will update the whole system >> which will update the kernel in the process. > > Hi- > > I have no useful advice about filesystem recovery, but would like to > point out that newer kernels are backported to Ubuntu LTS versions and > can be installed without any significant disruption of the system. > > The normal kernel backports are named 'linux-generic-lts- codename>', and the low latency versions are > 'linux-lowlatency-lts-', so you could install kernel > 3.16 (from 14.10 "utopic") by installing linux-lowlatency-lts-utopic, > and kernel 3.19 (from 15.04 "vivid") by installing > linux-lowlatency-lts-vivid. Kernel 4.1 will be available as > linux-{generic,lowlatency}-lts-wily a bit after 15.10 is released. Oh, that's very good advice. Running 3.19 now, great thanks ! When 4.1 comes out will update. Thanks ! Miguel