From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Btrfs rescue images
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:53:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090616005319.GA3735@think> (raw)
Hello everyone,
As Linus discovered, the new btrfs disk format in 2.6.31-git can be
problematic if your FS gets forward rolled to the new format and you end
up bisecting back to the old code.
It would also be nice to have a way to run btrfsck on a root filesystem
and do other assorted tasks. So, I'm making live boot usb images for
both x86 and x86-64.
They should have enough to get your filesystems mounted and they also
include git, gcc, make and enough to compile the kernel. These are
based on the Arch 2.6.30 distro with just the btrfs newformat code
added.
I've got the 32 bit image uploaded, and I'll queue up 64 bit overnight.
If anyone is feeling brave, just dd the image onto a usb stick and
rescue boot away.
They work on both of my test boxes, but a little extra testing would be
nice.
-chris
next reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 0:53 Chris Mason [this message]
2009-06-16 1:02 ` Btrfs rescue images Chris Mason
2009-06-16 11:52 ` Chris Mason
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090616005319.GA3735@think \
--to=chris.mason@oracle.com \
--cc=linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox