Re: So, does btrfs check lowmem take days? weeks?

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On 2018年07月04日 06:00, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:46:59PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> There must be something wrong, however due to the size of the fs, and
>>> the complexity of extent tree, I can't tell.
>>
>> Right, which is why I'm asking if any of the metadata integrity
>> checker mask options might reveal what's going wrong?
>>
>> I guess the big issues are:
>> a. compile kernel with CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY=y is necessary
>> b. it can come with a high resource burden depending on the mask and
>> where the log is being written (write system logs to a different file
>> system for sure)
>> c. the granularity offered in the integrity checker might not be enough.
>> d. might take a while before corruptions are injected before
>> corruption is noticed and flagged.
> 
> Back to where I'm at right now. I'm going to delete this filesystem and
> start over very soon. Tomorrow or the day after.
> I'm happy to get more data off it if someone wants it for posterity, but
> I indeed need to recover soon since being with a dead backup server is
> not a good place to be in :)

Feel free to recover asap, as the extent tree is really too large for
human to analyse manually.

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> Thanks,
> Marc
> 
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