Felix Koop posted on Mon, 25 May 2015 18:06:20 +0200 as excerpted: > I have a RAID5 filesystem where one disk has crashed. Now the filesystem > is not recognized any more. Any help available? > > Here is some info: > > root@server:~# uname -a Linux server 4.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.2-1 > (2015-05-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > root@server:~# btrfs --version btrfs-progs v4.0 Commendations on at least running current versions. With code as new as btrfs raid56 mode, that's absolutely critical, so I'm glad to see you got it covered! =:^) This isn't going to help with the current problem, but it might be useful in general... Note that I'm just a btrfs user/admin and list regular, not a dev, and that my own btrfs use-case is btrfs raid1 mode, so what I know about btrfs raid56 mode (covering both raid5 and raid6) is what I've found on the wiki and the list. Disclaimer out of the way... FWIW, btrfs raid56 mode was only actually theoretically complete with kernel 3.19, and is still very new and buggy. If you're simply testing it, great, we need testers to help it get to usability. =:^) If OTOH you're actually expecting it to work, I'd strongly recommend avoiding raid56 mode until it has at /least/ a /couple/ kernel cycles under its belt after completion... which would be 4.1 since 3.19 was code- completion, and preferably something closer to a year, five kernel cycles or so, thus 4.4. In the mean time, for multi-device btrfs modes with raid redundancy, I'd recommend sticking with either raid1 or raid10 modes as at this point they are both far more mature and tested, basically to the same level of maturity btrfs itself is, that being not entirely stable yet, but reasonably usable as long as you're following the sysadmins' backups rule, that in turn being, if it's not backed up you by definition don't care if you lose it, no matter what you claim, with the corollary being that a would-be backup isn't a backup, until you've tested that you can recover from it. As for help with your current broken btrfs raid5, I'll refer you to others with actual experience with it. =:^/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
