Re: MD RAID 5/6 vs BTRFS RAID 5/6

2019-10-23 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 10/21/19 9:34 PM, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 05:27:54PM +0200, Edmund Urbani wrote: >> On 10/16/19 9:42 PM, Zygo Blaxell wrote: >>> For raid5 I'd choose btrfs -draid5 -mraid1 over mdadm raid5 >>> sometimes--even with the write hole, I'd e

Re: MD RAID 5/6 vs BTRFS RAID 5/6

2019-10-21 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 10/16/19 9:42 PM, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > > For raid5 I'd choose btrfs -draid5 -mraid1 over mdadm raid5 > sometimes--even with the write hole, I'd expect smaller average data > losses than mdadm raid5 + write hole mitigation due to the way disk > failure modes are distributed. What about the wr

MD RAID 5/6 vs BTRFS RAID 5/6

2019-10-16 Thread Edmund Urbani
Hello everyone, having recovered most of my data from my btrfs RAID-6, I have by now migrated to mdadm RAID (with btrfs on top). I am considering switching back to btrfs RAID some day, when I feel more confident regarding its maturity. I put some thought into the pros and cons of this choice that

Re: Unmountable degraded BTRFS RAID6 filesystem

2019-09-05 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 05.09.2019 21:57, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:18 PM Edmund Urbani wrote: On 04.09.2019 07:36, Chris Murphy wrote: I have tried all the mount / restore options listed here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-543490 Good

Re: Unmountable degraded BTRFS RAID6 filesystem

2019-09-05 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 04.09.2019 07:36, Chris Murphy wrote: I have tried all the mount / restore options listed here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-543490 Good. Stick with ro attempts for now. Including if you want to try a newer kernel. If it succeeds t

Re: Unmountable degraded BTRFS RAID6 filesystem

2019-09-04 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 9/4/19 2:35 PM, Piotr Szymaniak wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 08:18:09AM +0200, Edmund Urbani wrote: >> *snip* >> The timeout under /sys is 30 for all of them. >> >> I am not sure what you mean by SCT ERC value and where to look for that. >> Here's al

Re: Unmountable degraded BTRFS RAID6 filesystem

2019-09-03 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 09/04/2019 07:36 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:41 PM Edmund Urbani > wrote: >> Also there are a few of these: >> Sep 1 21:10:17 phoenix kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct >> 0x1020 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 >> Sep 1 21:10:17 pho

Re: Unmountable degraded BTRFS RAID6 filesystem

2019-09-03 Thread Edmund Urbani
On 09/04/2019 01:30 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:20 PM Edmund Urbani wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> two days ago my btrfs filesystem became quite slow and the logs showed a >> lot of I/O errors on one of the HDDs. I ordered a replacement

Unmountable degraded BTRFS RAID6 filesystem

2019-09-03 Thread Edmund Urbani
Hi all, two days ago my btrfs filesystem became quite slow and the logs showed a lot of I/O errors on one of the HDDs. I ordered a replacement drive and tried to remove the failing drive from the filesystem (btrfs device remove). That removal command did not finish but just sat there without any