Re: 6TB partition, Data only 2TB - aka When you haven't hit the "usual" problem

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:31:41PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 05:13:28PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 09:59:29PM +0100, cheater00 . wrote:
>> >> >> OK. How do we track down that bug and get it fixed?
>> >> >
>> >> >    I have no idea. I'm not a btrfs dev, I'm afraid.
>> >> >
>> >> >    It's been around for a number of years. None of the devs has, I
>> >> > think, had the time to look at it. When Josef was still (publicly)
>> >> > active, he had it second on his list of bugs to look at for many
>> >> > months -- but it always got trumped by some new bug that could cause
>> >> > data loss.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Interesting. I did not know of this bug. It's pretty rare.
>> >
>> >    Not really. It shows up maybe on average once a week on IRC. It
>> > gets reported much less on the mailing list.
>>
>> Is there a pattern? Does it only happen at a 2TiB threshold?
>
>    No, and no.
>
>    There is, as far as I can tell from some years of seeing reports of
> this bug, no correlation with RAID level, hardware, OS, kernel
> version, FS size, usage of the FS at failure, or allocation level of
> either data or metadata at failure.
>
>    I haven't tried correlating with the phase of the moon or the
> losses on Lloyds Register yet.

Huh. So it's goofy cakes.

This is specifically where btrfs_free_extent produces errno -28 no
space left, and then the fs goes read-only?

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Chris Murphy
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