From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hullen@t-online.de (Helmut Hullen) Subject: Re: kernel 3.3.4 damages filesystem (?) Date: 07 May 2012 18:36:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120507140540.GF8938@carfax.org.uk> Reply-To: helmut@hullen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120507140540.GF8938@carfax.org.uk> List-ID: Hallo, Hugo, Du meintest am 07.05.12: >> It's dead - R.I.P. > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I don't think we can point the > finger at btrfs here. a) you know what to do with the bearer? b) I like such errors - completely independent, but simultaneously. > It looks like you've lost most of your data -- losing a RAID-0 > stripe across the whole FS isn't likely to have left much of it > intact. I'm just going back to ext4 - then one broken disk doesn't disturb the contents of the other disks. The data is not very valuable - DVB video mpegs. Most of the files are repeated on and on. > If you've got the space (or the money to get it), mkfs.btrfs > -m raid1 -d raid1 would have saved you here. About 400 ... 500 Euro for backing up videos? Not necessary. (No: I don't count the minutes and hours working with the system ...) > [ Incidentally, thinking about it, the failure coming at a kernel > upgrade could well be down to the additional stress of the > power-down/reboot finally pushing a bad drive over the edge. ] Just now it's again an "open system"; I had to wobble the cables too ... Maybe the SATA-PCI-controller needs to be replaced too ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut