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From: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
To: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: Timothy Normand Miller <theosib@gmail.com>,
	Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: So, wipe it out and start over or keep debugging?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:09:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJCQCtT3kGNZ3vcvhjP==6L402Zys=a3mHexErajTSDDbNBdNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D31533.4040409@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn
<ahferroin7@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-08-17 14:52, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong.  Here's what I'm seeing:
>>
>> # btrfs-image -c9 -t4 -w /mnt/btrfs ~/btrfs_dump.z
>> Superblock bytenr is larger than device size
>> Open ctree failed
>> create failed (No such file or directory)
>
>
> For the source, you need to specify the underlying block device, not the top
> of the mounted filesystem.  It's trying to read the directory as a block
> device and getting very confused.  We should probably add some kind of check
> to btrfs-image to warn about that.

Should it even be possible to use btrfs-image on a mounted volume? If
it's written to at all, the collected image is going to be
inconsistent.

-- 
Chris Murphy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-15 21:46 So, wipe it out and start over or keep debugging? Timothy Normand Miller
2015-08-17 11:43 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-08-17 18:52   ` Timothy Normand Miller
2015-08-18 11:21     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-08-18 13:30       ` Timothy Normand Miller
2015-08-18 15:10         ` Timothy Normand Miller
2015-08-18 15:56           ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-08-18 21:09       ` Chris Murphy [this message]
2015-08-18 21:10         ` Timothy Normand Miller
2015-08-20 11:35         ` Austin S Hemmelgarn

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