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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77+btrfs@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recovery advice
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:41:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kpu1da-elm.ln1@hurikhan.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAPs0BijizOo0c566U6-uAe1voCr-W2SVHkMeT1sirTfi4jgeSg@mail.gmail.com

Sandy McArthur <sandymac@gmail.com> schrieb:

> I have a 4 disk RAID1 setup that fails to {mount,btrfsck} when disk 4
> is connected.
> 
> With disk 4 attached btrfsck errors with:
> btrfsck: root-tree.c:46: btrfs_find_last_root: Assertion
> `!(path->slots[0] == 0)' failed
> (I'd have to reboot in a non-functioning state to get the full output.)
> 
> I can mount the filesystem in a degraded state with the 4th drive
> removed. I believe there is some data corruption as I see lines in
> /var/log/messages from the degraded,ro filesystem like this:
> 
> BTRFS info (device sdd1): csum failed ino 4433 off 3254538240 csum
> 1033749897 private 2248083221
> 
> I'm at the point where all I can think to do is wipe disk 4 and then
> add it back in. Is there anything else I should try first. I have
> booted btrfs-next with the latest btrfs-progs.

It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it 
back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss because 
all data is stored twice (two-way mirroring).

Regards,
Kai


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-04 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 20:31 Recovery advice Sandy McArthur
2013-08-04 12:41 ` Kai Krakow [this message]
2013-08-04 22:19   ` Duncan
2013-08-04 23:05     ` Kai Krakow
2013-08-05 15:44       ` Sandy McArthur
2013-08-04 23:13     ` Chris Murphy

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