Re: btrfs problems on new file system

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On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:38 AM,  <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> covici posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:11 -0500 as excerpted:
>>
>> > Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> If you can post the entire dmesg somewhere that'd be useful. MUAs tend
>> >> to wrap that text and make it unreadable on list. I think the problems
>> >> with your volume happened before the messages, but it's hard to say.
>> >> Also, a generation of nearly 5000 is not that new?
>> >
>> > The file system was only a few days old.  It was on an lvm volume group
>> > which consisted of two ssd drives, so I am not sure what you are saying
>> > about lvm cache -- how could I do anything different?
>> >
>> >> On another thread someone said you probably need to specify the device
>> >> to mount when using Btrfs and lvmcache? And the device to specify is
>> >> the combined HDD+SSD logical device, for lvmcache that's the "cache
>> >> LV", which is the OriginLV + CachePoolLV. If Btrfs decides to mount the
>> >> origin, it can result in corruption.
>> >
>> > See above.
>>
>> I think he mixed up two threads and thought you were running lvm-cache,
>> not just regular lvm, which should be good unless you're exposing lvm
>> snapshots and thus letting btrfs see multiple supposed UUIDs that aren't
>> actually universal.  Since btrfs is multi-device and uses the UUID to
>> track which devices belong to it (because they're _supposed_ to be
>> universally unique, it's even in the _name_!), if it sees the same UUID
>> it'll consider it part of the same filesystem, thus potentially causing
>> corruption if it's a snapshot or something that's not actually supposed
>> to be part of the (current) filesystem.
>
> I found a few more log entries, perhaps these may be helpful to track
> this down, or maybe prevent the filesystem from going read-only.

No, you need to post the entire dmesg. The "cut here" part is maybe
useful for a developer diagnosing Btrfs's response to the problem, but
the problem, or the pre-problem, happened before this.

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Chris Murphy
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