Re: Kernel crash during btrfs scrub

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On 2018年01月03日 18:14, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> On 2018-01-03 05:58, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> On 2018年01月03日 09:12, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
>>> Dear btrfs team,
>>>
>>> I send a kernel crash report which I have observed recently during btrfs scrub.
>>> It looks like scrub itself has completed without errors.
>>
>> It's not a kernel crash (if I didn't miss anything), but just kernel
>> warning.
>>
>> The warning is caused by the fact that your fs (mostly created by old
>> mkfs.btrfs) has device with unaligned size.
>>
>> You could either resize the device down a little (e.g. -4K) and newer
>> kernel (the one you're using should be new enough) could handle it well.
>>
>> Or you could update your btrfs-progs (I assume you're using Arch, which
>> is already shipping btrfs-progs v4.14) and use "btrfs rescue
>> fix-device-size" to fix other device related problems offline.
>> (Not only the warning, but also potential superblock size mismatch)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Qu
> 
> Thanks for reply!
> 
> Why couldn't a warning message be issued as one-liner, e.g. with proper
> description and without scaring stack trace?

Because we're using WARN_ON() and the backtrace is in fact very useful
for developers to locate the problem.

For one-line message, the problem is we don't know who caused the
problem if there are multiple callers.

But since the cause of the problem is located, one-line output seems better.

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> btrfs /dev/sda1 warning: device size is not aligned with FS (mostly created by old mkfs.btrfs), see https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#...
> 

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