From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
QuWenruo <wqu@suse.com>, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>,
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
Zygo Blaxell <ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org>,
Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>, To: Su Yue <Damenly_Su@gmx.com>,
Su Yue <suy.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>;
Subject: Re: BTRFS discard crash: failed to run delayed ref for logical 15506102321152 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 2 ref_mod 1: -2 6.11.2)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:38:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <advYoKqUCUmD4oO6@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adsDRShNS8OkIcbr@merlins.org>
Last update, looks like there is no way out for a regular user, which is diappointing.
btrfs check eventually worked with a lot of swap and a trick Gemini gave me:
moremagic:~# echo -1000 > /proc/$(pgrep -x btrfs)/oom_score_adj
moremagic:~# sysctl vm.swappiness=100
At least it got that part right, I was able to run the whole check:
Opening filesystem to check...
Checking filesystem on /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0
UUID: a97dec85-a0d5-42ab-a0ef-e9b7479fbe43
[1/8] checking log skipped (none written)
[1/7] checking root items (0:06:49 elapsed, 35112838 items checked)
Fixed 0 roots.
No device size related problem found (1:11:30 elapsed, 4288885 items checked)
[2/7] checking extents (1:11:31 elapsed, 4288885 items checked)
[3/7] checking free space cache (0:07:16 elapsed, 20918 items checked)
[4/7] checking fs roots (6:16:17 elapsed, 2835820 items checked)
[5/7] checking csums (without verifying data) (0:50:04 elapsed, 10400884 items checked)
[6/7] checking root refs (0:00:00 elapsed, 112 items checked)
[7/7] checking quota groups (0:08:19 elapsed)
found 18657895645184 bytes used, no error found
total csum bytes: 18153824804
total tree bytes: 70266978304
total fs tree bytes: 46633795584
total extent tree bytes: 3394486272
btree space waste bytes: 11583902998
file data blocks allocated: 43054973927424
referenced 23610773848064
So, not bad, but not good either since it shows nothing fixed.
And unsurprisingly, I'm back to square 1
As per my previous comments on btrfs and raid5, I think it's now my 5,
6th or 7th time in 12 years losing a filesystem (defined by it went bad
and I can't recover it myself). I was really hopeful that after all
these years, fixes and new code, it would be more solid but at least for
me, it hasn't been :-/
Before I wipe it and start over, I'm willing to try a few things you'd like
to try and fix this issue kernel and/or btrfs check side.
I can build a TOT btrfs-progs, but can't upgrade the kernel as it's a Pi5 with
indeed a page size of 16384 which hopefully isn't the source of all of this
(retiring power hungry 400W-ish intel systems to save on electricity bills)
moremagic:~# mount -o rw,skip_balance /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0 /mnt/btrfs_bigbackup
usb 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci-hcd
BTRFS: device label DS6 devid 1 transid 296961 /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0 (251:0) scanned by mount (304163)
BTRFS info (device dm-0): first mount of filesystem a97dec85-a0d5-42ab-a0ef-e9b7479fbe43
BTRFS info (device dm-0): using crc32c (crc32c-generic) checksum algorithm
BTRFS info (device dm-0): forcing free space tree for sector size 4096 with page size 16384
BTRFS warning (device dm-0): read-write for sector size 4096 with page size 16384 is experimental
BTRFS info (device dm-0): bdev /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0 errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 5074, gen 0
------------[ cut here ]------------
BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 304163 at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2996 __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: dm_crypt dm_mod bcache raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xt_MASQUERADE ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack xt_LOG nf_log_syslog nft_compat nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep cp210x brcmfmac_wcc binfmt_misc usbserial hci_uart brcmfmac btbcm vc4 snd_soc_hdmi_codec brcmutil bluetooth drm_display_helper cfg80211 cec drm_dma_helper rpi_hevc_dec ecdh_generic v4l2_mem2mem ecc snd_soc_core pisp_be videobuf2_dma_contig v3d videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 gpu_sched rfkill videodev drm_shmem_helper snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm videobuf2_common rp1_pio snd_timer snd drm_kms_helper mc raspberrypi_gpiomem rp1_fw sg sch_fq_codel ecryptfs fuse drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks backlight nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables raid1 aes_ce_blk aes_ce_cipher ghash_ce gf128mul libaes sha2_ce spidev sha256_arm64 sha1_ce raspberrypi_hwmon sha1_generic ahci i2c_brcmstb spi_bcm2835
md_mod gpio_keys libahci pwm_fan rp1_adc libata rp1_mailbox nvmem_rmem uio_pdrv_genirq uio btrfs blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq zram lz4_compress ipv6
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 304163 Comm: mount Tainted: G W 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1 (DT)
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
lr : __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
sp : ffffc00086a93680
x29: ffffc00086a93720 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000002f02
x26: 000000000000007f x25: ffff8000157cec30 x24: 0000000000004000
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff800102b671e0 x21: 0000000000004000
x20: 00000e1a4bb88000 x19: 00000000fffffffe x18: 0000000000000006
x17: ffff800100393640 x16: 0000000000000020 x15: 0000000000000002
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000020000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffffd06fcf9884f8 x10: 0000000000000ca9 x9 : ffffd06fcf1deb40
x8 : 0000000000017fe8 x7 : 00000000fffff000 x6 : 0000000000000002
x5 : 0000000000000400 x4 : 0000000000000800 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff80011f76c600
Call trace:
__btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
__btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x508/0xec0 [btrfs]
btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x48/0x198 [btrfs]
btrfs_commit_transaction+0x88/0xe20 [btrfs]
btrfs_recover_relocation+0x55c/0x5d0 [btrfs]
btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount+0x1d4/0x470 [btrfs]
open_ctree+0x101c/0x13b8 [btrfs]
btrfs_get_tree+0x5b4/0x800 [btrfs]
vfs_get_tree+0x30/0x108
fc_mount+0x20/0x68
btrfs_get_tree+0x238/0x800 [btrfs]
vfs_get_tree+0x30/0x108
vfs_cmd_create+0x58/0xf8
__arm64_sys_fsconfig+0x444/0x5b8
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x30/0xf8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS: error (device dm-0 state A) in do_free_extent_accounting:2996: errno=-2 No such entry
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): failed to run delayed ref for logical 15506102321152 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 2 ref_mod 1: -2
BTRFS: error (device dm-0 state EA) in btrfs_run_delayed_refs:2215: errno=-2 No such entry
BTRFS warning (device dm-0 state EA): failed to recover relocation: -2
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): commit super ret -30
mount: /mnt/btrfs_bigbackup: fsconfig() failed: No such file or directory.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): open_ctree failed: -2
--
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From: Marc MERLIN <marc_btrfs@merlins.org>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
QuWenruo <wqu@suse.com>, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>,
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
Zygo Blaxell <ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org>,
Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>, To: Su Yue <Damenly_Su@gmx.com>,
Su Yue <suy.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>;
Subject: Re: BTRFS discard crash: failed to run delayed ref for logical 15506102321152 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 2 ref_mod 1: -2 6.11.2)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:38:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <advYoKqUCUmD4oO6@merlins.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20260412173840.01a5yPQvv3TCwMj2C34sRhwFozVKYaJxhZmKULsOoC0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adsDRShNS8OkIcbr@merlins.org>
Last update, looks like there is no way out for a regular user, which is diappointing.
btrfs check eventually worked with a lot of swap and a trick Gemini gave me:
moremagic:~# echo -1000 > /proc/$(pgrep -x btrfs)/oom_score_adj
moremagic:~# sysctl vm.swappiness=100
At least it got that part right, I was able to run the whole check:
Opening filesystem to check...
Checking filesystem on /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0
UUID: a97dec85-a0d5-42ab-a0ef-e9b7479fbe43
[1/8] checking log skipped (none written)
[1/7] checking root items (0:06:49 elapsed, 35112838 items checked)
Fixed 0 roots.
No device size related problem found (1:11:30 elapsed, 4288885 items checked)
[2/7] checking extents (1:11:31 elapsed, 4288885 items checked)
[3/7] checking free space cache (0:07:16 elapsed, 20918 items checked)
[4/7] checking fs roots (6:16:17 elapsed, 2835820 items checked)
[5/7] checking csums (without verifying data) (0:50:04 elapsed, 10400884 items checked)
[6/7] checking root refs (0:00:00 elapsed, 112 items checked)
[7/7] checking quota groups (0:08:19 elapsed)
found 18657895645184 bytes used, no error found
total csum bytes: 18153824804
total tree bytes: 70266978304
total fs tree bytes: 46633795584
total extent tree bytes: 3394486272
btree space waste bytes: 11583902998
file data blocks allocated: 43054973927424
referenced 23610773848064
So, not bad, but not good either since it shows nothing fixed.
And unsurprisingly, I'm back to square 1
As per my previous comments on btrfs and raid5, I think it's now my 5,
6th or 7th time in 12 years losing a filesystem (defined by it went bad
and I can't recover it myself). I was really hopeful that after all
these years, fixes and new code, it would be more solid but at least for
me, it hasn't been :-/
Before I wipe it and start over, I'm willing to try a few things you'd like
to try and fix this issue kernel and/or btrfs check side.
I can build a TOT btrfs-progs, but can't upgrade the kernel as it's a Pi5 with
indeed a page size of 16384 which hopefully isn't the source of all of this
(retiring power hungry 400W-ish intel systems to save on electricity bills)
moremagic:~# mount -o rw,skip_balance /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0 /mnt/btrfs_bigbackup
usb 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci-hcd
BTRFS: device label DS6 devid 1 transid 296961 /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0 (251:0) scanned by mount (304163)
BTRFS info (device dm-0): first mount of filesystem a97dec85-a0d5-42ab-a0ef-e9b7479fbe43
BTRFS info (device dm-0): using crc32c (crc32c-generic) checksum algorithm
BTRFS info (device dm-0): forcing free space tree for sector size 4096 with page size 16384
BTRFS warning (device dm-0): read-write for sector size 4096 with page size 16384 is experimental
BTRFS info (device dm-0): bdev /dev/mapper/crypt_bcache0 errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 5074, gen 0
------------[ cut here ]------------
BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 304163 at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2996 __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: dm_crypt dm_mod bcache raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xt_MASQUERADE ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack xt_LOG nf_log_syslog nft_compat nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep cp210x brcmfmac_wcc binfmt_misc usbserial hci_uart brcmfmac btbcm vc4 snd_soc_hdmi_codec brcmutil bluetooth drm_display_helper cfg80211 cec drm_dma_helper rpi_hevc_dec ecdh_generic v4l2_mem2mem ecc snd_soc_core pisp_be videobuf2_dma_contig v3d videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 gpu_sched rfkill videodev drm_shmem_helper snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm videobuf2_common rp1_pio snd_timer snd drm_kms_helper mc raspberrypi_gpiomem rp1_fw sg sch_fq_codel ecryptfs fuse drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks backlight nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables raid1 aes_ce_blk aes_ce_cipher ghash_ce gf128mul libaes sha2_ce spidev sha256_arm64 sha1_ce raspberrypi_hwmon sha1_generic ahci i2c_brcmstb spi_bcm2835
md_mod gpio_keys libahci pwm_fan rp1_adc libata rp1_mailbox nvmem_rmem uio_pdrv_genirq uio btrfs blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq zram lz4_compress ipv6
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 304163 Comm: mount Tainted: G W 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1 (DT)
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
lr : __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
sp : ffffc00086a93680
x29: ffffc00086a93720 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000002f02
x26: 000000000000007f x25: ffff8000157cec30 x24: 0000000000004000
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff800102b671e0 x21: 0000000000004000
x20: 00000e1a4bb88000 x19: 00000000fffffffe x18: 0000000000000006
x17: ffff800100393640 x16: 0000000000000020 x15: 0000000000000002
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000020000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffffd06fcf9884f8 x10: 0000000000000ca9 x9 : ffffd06fcf1deb40
x8 : 0000000000017fe8 x7 : 00000000fffff000 x6 : 0000000000000002
x5 : 0000000000000400 x4 : 0000000000000800 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff80011f76c600
Call trace:
__btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x13a0/0x14a0 [btrfs]
__btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x508/0xec0 [btrfs]
btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x48/0x198 [btrfs]
btrfs_commit_transaction+0x88/0xe20 [btrfs]
btrfs_recover_relocation+0x55c/0x5d0 [btrfs]
btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount+0x1d4/0x470 [btrfs]
open_ctree+0x101c/0x13b8 [btrfs]
btrfs_get_tree+0x5b4/0x800 [btrfs]
vfs_get_tree+0x30/0x108
fc_mount+0x20/0x68
btrfs_get_tree+0x238/0x800 [btrfs]
vfs_get_tree+0x30/0x108
vfs_cmd_create+0x58/0xf8
__arm64_sys_fsconfig+0x444/0x5b8
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x30/0xf8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS: error (device dm-0 state A) in do_free_extent_accounting:2996: errno=-2 No such entry
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): failed to run delayed ref for logical 15506102321152 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 2 ref_mod 1: -2
BTRFS: error (device dm-0 state EA) in btrfs_run_delayed_refs:2215: errno=-2 No such entry
BTRFS warning (device dm-0 state EA): failed to recover relocation: -2
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): commit super ret -30
mount: /mnt/btrfs_bigbackup: fsconfig() failed: No such file or directory.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): open_ctree failed: -2
--
"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.
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2026-04-11 3:35 BTRFS discard crash: failed to run delayed ref for logical 15506102321152 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 2 ref_mod 1: -2 6.11.2) Marc MERLIN
2026-04-11 4:47 ` Qu Wenruo
2026-04-11 12:04 ` Roman Mamedov
2026-04-11 16:22 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 1:57 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 1:57 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 2:28 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 2:28 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 17:38 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2026-04-12 17:38 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 20:21 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-12 20:21 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-13 2:14 ` Roman Mamedov
2026-04-13 2:34 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-13 2:34 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-13 17:52 ` Simple quota unsafe? RIP: 0010:__btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0xc41/0x1020 [btrfs] / do_free_extent_accounting:2999: errno=-2 No such entry Marc MERLIN
2026-04-13 17:52 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-13 18:47 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-13 19:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-13 19:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-15 5:21 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-15 17:05 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-15 17:59 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-15 18:44 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-15 20:22 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-15 22:36 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-15 22:55 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-15 23:25 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-16 0:55 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-16 1:22 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-16 0:45 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-16 1:08 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-16 1:25 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-16 16:51 ` Simple quota unsafe (FIXED: btrfstune --remove-simple-quota worked) Marc MERLIN
2026-04-16 17:21 ` Simple quota unsafe? RIP: 0010:__btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0xc41/0x1020 [btrfs] / do_free_extent_accounting:2999: errno=-2 No such entry Marc MERLIN
2026-04-16 21:36 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-16 21:47 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-17 21:51 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-17 22:37 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-17 23:16 ` Boris Burkov
2026-04-18 0:18 ` Marc MERLIN
2026-04-17 3:43 ` BTRFS discard crash: failed to run delayed ref for logical 15506102321152 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 2 ref_mod 1: -2 6.11.2) David Disseldorp
2026-04-17 5:19 ` Marc MERLIN
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