Re: Hardware failure or btrfs issue?

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On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:36:48PM +0100, Peter Chant wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 08:29 AM, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >This is usually an indication that you have bad hardware -- I'd
> >suggest testing RAM, PSU, CPU in that order. I'm not sure what, if
> >anything, can be done to fix the error on the disk right now.
> 
> Thanks, appreciated.
> 
> Hmm.  I've got one stick of ram out of the machine due to testing as
> I had some freezes last week.

   So the damage probably happened then, if that stick is bad.
Filesystems have this irritating habit of remembering things done to
them across reboots. :)

   Hugo.

> If it were one of the RAM, PSU and CPU then I'm unsure why this IO
> issue only surfaces on the HDD and not the SSD.  I ordered a new HDD
> last night, before reading your post.  If its not the disk I'll go
> raid1.  If it is the disk then I'll probally find out.
> 
> >>Not that I've done anything other than a cursory check but it looks
> >>like the read only data is fine.
> >    Might be a good idea to use that to refresh your backups, just in
> >case my prediction about the fixability is correct.
> 
> Well, first option is to drop in the new disk, freshly format it and
> copy the data across (not add it as a second disk).  If that fails
> last backup was wednesday.  I've not done much of note since then
> apart from try to fix the disk issues.
> 
> 

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