overlay file to test btrfs repairs

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Hi folks,

So I just ran into this:
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Recovering_a_failed_software_RAID#Making_the_harddisks_read-only_using_an_overlay_file

This is a device mapper overlay file - not overlayfs.

For the repairs that are sometimes uncertain what's next, maybe this
is a viable option to avoid changing the file system? I'm thinking
chunk-recover might take up too much space, I'm not sure how that one
works, if chunks are just being read or if they have to be rewritten
or if it's just the chunk tree? But for 'btrfs check' and 'btrfs
rescue super-recover/zero-log' there should be very little being
written so the overlay idea might be a good step?

Opinions?

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Chris Murphy
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