Re: Can't mount, power failure - recoverable?

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:23:53PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. März 2012 schrieb Skylar Burtenshaw:
> > Fajar A. Nugraha <list <at> fajar.net> writes:
> > > Didn't Chris' last response basically say "use kernel 3.2 or newer,
> > > mount the fs (possibly with -o ro), and copy the data elsewhere"?
> > 
> > Why yes, yes it did actually. I appreciate your spotlighting it, just
> > in case I somehow managed to miss it, though.
> > 
> > > Have you done that?
> > 
> > I have. In fact, in my first message, I stated that in all kernels up
> > to present 3.2 kernels, I get several minutes of disk churning, then a
> > stack trace. Also present in my messages is the fact that the
> > filesystem will not mount, as well as data output from the recovery
> > program etc which fail to recognize things in the filesystem that they
> > require in order to fix it. Did you have something you wished to
> > suggest, in order to help me? If so, I'd gladly listen to any proposed
> > ideas.
> 
> Since I didn´t found any explicit mention on it:
> 
> Did you try btrfs-zero-log on the partition prior to mounting it?
> 
> All of my BTRFS will not mount after sudden write interruption cases have 
> been solved by it. Except one with a BTRFS RAID 0 with lots of 2 TB drives 
> at a time where I didn´t know about btrfs-zero-log. Maybe it would have 
> helped there, too.
> 
> Of course I could be completely off track and this could be a completely 
> different issue.

   I'm afraid you probably are -- there's nothing I can see in the
stack trace that would indicate that it's falling over in the log tree
replay, which is the only thing that btrfs-zero-log would help with.

   Hugo.

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