Fwd: Rawhide Beta Everything.iso and other ISOs -- btrfs -- serious issue

2024-02-05 Thread Luna Jernberg
-- Forwarded message - Från: Leslie Satenstein via devel Date: mån 5 feb. 2024 kl 17:23 Subject: Rawhide Beta Everything.iso and other ISOs -- btrfs -- serious issue To: de...@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Leslie Satenstein I am not registered as an official test person. But I

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
=usebackuproot" this is also used by rescue=all, but permits rw mount. If it works, the current damaged root tree will be replaced by a good one. > btrfs rescue zero-log > btrfs check --repair --init-extent-tree > btrfs check --repair I don't think any of these are indicated

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
this problematic filesystem. Is it time to run them? Try "mount -o rescue=usebackuproot" this is also used by rescue=all, but permits rw mount. If it works, the current damaged root tree will be replaced by a good one. > btrfs rescue zero-log > btrfs check --repair --init-extent-tree >

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
. From "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?mlist=users%40lists.fedoraproject.org&q=parent+transid+verify+failed"; I found some other commands that you wrote. I presume after unmounting this problematic filesystem. Is it time to run them? I'm not sure what they

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
gt;> can fix itself. If it gets confused again, it'll go read only to avoid >> making things worse. > > This mount is just a one time thing, assuming it works. You can just > umount, and then reboot normally. Also, generally easier to ask for me (cmurf) on https://matrix.to/#/

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 11:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > After that, you can umount the file system. And mount again with '-o > rescue=usebackuproot' and hopefully it finds a good backup root, and > can fix itself. If it gets confused again, it'll go read only to avoid > making things worse.

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Murphy
#x27;s path > being in /etc/fstab. > > I need some help with this please. Here is what mount says: > > mount /dev/sda6 /opt. > > kernel: BTRFS info (device sda6): flagging fs with big metadata feature > kernel: BTRFS info (device sda6): disk space caching is enabled &g

Re: mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-22 Thread Stephen Snow
system. This might have been the wrong thing to do. This > subsequent boot went to maintenance mode due the filesystem's path > being in /etc/fstab. > > I need some help with this please. Here is what mount says: > > mount /dev/sda6 /opt. > > kernel: BTRFS info (de

mount fails for btrfs filesystem, need help please.

2022-08-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
says: mount /dev/sda6 /opt. kernel: BTRFS info (device sda6): flagging fs with big metadata feature kernel: BTRFS info (device sda6): disk space caching is enabled kernel: BTRFS info (device sda6): has skinny extents kernel: BTRFS error (device sda6): parent transid verify failed on 148312850432 w

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-06 Thread FUNG Chi Chuen Sampson
As tested on Fedora Linux 33 Silverblue, /boot as a btrfs subvol cannot boot at all. While using Fedora-Silverblue-ostree-x86_64-34-20210405.n.0.iso, (using Advanced Storage), /boot created as a 2GiB btrfs partition can boot without issues. ___ test

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 3:50 AM TheEvilSkeleton wrote: > > I tried using /boot on btrfs a couple of times some days ago, and it kept > failing each time until I used ext4. > > This is bad UX. If I need to "fiddle with enough" on a problem that wasn't > suppo

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 3:42 AM TheEvilSkeleton wrote: > > A couple of days ago I tried to manually install Fedora 34 Silverblue on UEFI > system and it kept failing when I was using /boot on btrfs. When I switched > to ext4, it installed flawlessly. I will try it soon on the IS

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 11:18 AM Proprietary Chrome-chan < theevilskele...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi, > > `/boot` can be used on btrfs. However, Anaconda forces me to use ext4 in > that specific, when it shouldn't if you use btrfs. > > I'd like to request al

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-02 Thread TheEvilSkeleton
I tried using /boot on btrfs a couple of times some days ago, and it kept failing each time until I used ext4. This is bad UX. If I need to "fiddle with enough" on a problem that wasn't supposed to be a problem, it should be addressed. By default, when using the automatic

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-02 Thread TheEvilSkeleton
A couple of days ago I tried to manually install Fedora 34 Silverblue on UEFI system and it kept failing when I was using /boot on btrfs. When I switched to ext4, it installed flawlessly. I will try it soon on the ISO you linked and will report back if this issue persists or not. On April 1

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:18 AM Proprietary Chrome-chan wrote: > > Hi, > > `/boot` can be used on btrfs. However, Anaconda forces me to use ext4 in that > specific, when it shouldn't if you use btrfs. > > I'd like to request allowing `/boot` to be used on bt

Re: /boot on btrfs

2021-04-01 Thread FUNG Chi Chuen Sampson
Anaconda do not complain about /boot partition using btrfs, as tested with https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-34-20210401.n.0/compose/Everything/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210401.n.0.iso Testing steps: 1. Boot the USB 2. Choose Custom Storager 3

/boot on btrfs

2021-04-01 Thread Proprietary Chrome-chan
Hi, `/boot` can be used on btrfs. However, Anaconda forces me to use ext4 in that specific, when it shouldn't if you use btrfs. I'd like to request allowing `/boot` to be used on btrfs. ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
tors /dev/sda8      436217856 3907029167 3470811312  1.6T 83 Linux sda8 is 1777055391744 bytes Btrfs says:   dev_item.total_bytes    1777055391744 Those agree. The scrub message comes from block/blk-core.c:655:  pr_info_ratelimited("attempt to access beyond end of device\n" I don't k

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, No message appeared but the message came out at the beginning of btrfs-convert. I could convert again if that would help. dmesg for "this" boot enclosed: Regards, George... On Saturday, March 6, 2021, 1:36:13 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: fdisk says: Disk /dev/sda

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
6, 2021, 1:36:13 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: fdisk says: Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors /dev/sda8      436217856 3907029167 3470811312  1.6T 83 Linux sda8 is 1777055391744 bytes Btrfs says:   dev_item.total_bytes    1777055391744 Those agree. The scrub mes

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread Chris Murphy
fdisk says: Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors /dev/sda8 436217856 3907029167 3470811312 1.6T 83 Linux sda8 is 1777055391744 bytes Btrfs says: dev_item.total_bytes1777055391744 Those agree. The scrub message comes from block/blk-core.c:655

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 1:53 PM George R Goffe wrote: > > [17325.282263] BTRFS warning (device sdb1): checksum error at logical > 498744950784 on dev /dev/sdb1, physical 1415872512, root 256, inode 257, > offset 262144, length 4096, links 1 (path: image) > [17325.282299] BTRFS err

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
fc35-bash 5.1 ~# btrfs inspect-internal dump-super  /dev/sda8 | grep bytes total_bytes 1777055391744 bytes_used  1771772448768 dev_item.total_bytes    1777055391744 dev_item.bytes_used 1777053872128 fc35-bash 5.1 ~# btrfs inspect-internal dump-super  /dev/sdb1 | grep

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread Chris Murphy
Also need: sudo btrfs insp dump-s /dev/sda8 | grep 'total_bytes\|dev_item.total_bytes' sudo btrfs insp dump-s /dev/sdb1 | grep 'total_bytes\|dev_item.total_bytes' -- Chris ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
have nowhere near > enough extra space to hold the image and tar file you've asked for AND, > there's too much personal information for me for me to feel comfortable > posting it publicly. Understood. e2image doesn't have a filename scrubber like the btrfs-image equivalen

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread Chris Murphy
formation for me for me to feel comfortable > posting it publicly. Understood. e2image doesn't have a filename scrubber like the btrfs-image equivalent (-s and -ss). I don't have a good work around for this, and suggest asking on the ext4 development list. > I'm converting a s

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-06 Thread George R Goffe via test
tive capacity" by the way. Is this a problem? Regards, George... On Friday, March 5, 2021, 3:51:14 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:39 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Quick follow up on one thing I can't reproduce from George's scrub: > > [3

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:39 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Quick follow up on one thing I can't reproduce from George's scrub: > > [36365.549230] BTRFS error (device sda8): scrub: tree block > 1777055424512 spanning stripes, ignored. logical=1777055367168 > [36365.5492

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-05 Thread Chris Murphy
Quick follow up on one thing I can't reproduce from George's scrub: [36365.549230] BTRFS error (device sda8): scrub: tree block 1777055424512 spanning stripes, ignored. logical=1777055367168 [36365.549262] attempt to access beyond end of device sda8: rw=0, want=3470811

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/4/21 6:50 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:40:19PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: There are a few different types of full-disk backup, but if it's file-based and the atimes are modified, that's the intent of the backup process. The atimes are used to determine which files to

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-04 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:50 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:40:19PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > There are a few different types of full-disk backup, but if it's > > file-based and the atimes are modified, that's the intent of the > > backup process. The atimes are used t

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:40:19PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > There are a few different types of full-disk backup, but if it's > file-based and the atimes are modified, that's the intent of the > backup process. The atimes are used to determine which files to > backup. A scrub is not a backup an

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-04 Thread Chris Murphy
George, You've found a bug. I've got a reproducer. https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/349 Both the ext4 rollback file, ext2_saved/image, and the converted btrfs file system are OK. The corruption is bogus, so the bug is that somehow checksums on a handful of specific blocks (

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Chris Murphy
a mismatch, right? If there's a mismatch, and no redundancy, there's no fixup. Therefore no write. If there's a mismatch, and there's redundancy of some kind, a fixup is possible. That involves finding the good copy and overwriting the bad. But this too is at a block level,

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/3/21 4:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 12:13:33PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: It depends on how the scrubbing works. I would have expected it to be reading data at the filesystem level, not actually opening and reading every file. That seems like a really bad thing to m

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 12:13:33PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > It depends on how the scrubbing works. I would have expected it to > be reading data at the filesystem level, not actually opening and > reading every file. That seems like a really bad thing to me, > resetting the atimes on every fil

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:57:28PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > It works at the block level. A block is read, checksum calculated and > compared to the previously recorded checksum for the block. It doesn't > know what it's reading, not even whether it's compressed or not. It > just becomes a strea

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Chris Murphy
then how it figures out where the good copy is (if any) and does self-healing. It pretty much runs at device max read capability. Related: 'btrfs replace' command utilizes this scrub facility to live replace a drive, and is the preferred way to replace; as compared to 'btrfs device ad

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Chris Murphy
keep your backups fresh, while you have the chance. What I can tell you is Btrfs isn't changing the data or the checksums on disk. They've changed since the checksums were computed at btrfs-convert time. While it is possible there's a bug that can explain this, it's not one I'

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/3/21 10:05 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 11:56:58AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: From what I can tell scrubbing only reads data and compares to the stored checksum. Why would that wear out a SSD? If you have atimes enabled, reading a file also makes a metadata write. Bu

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 11:56:58AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > From what I can tell scrubbing only reads data and compares to the stored > checksum. Why would that wear out a SSD? If you have atimes enabled, reading a file also makes a metadata write. But I don't think it's that big a deal on mod

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 3:26 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > I recall a long and detailed discussion on this list before F33 was > released concerning what disk maintenance would be required with BTRFS. > As I recall, the final word was along the lines the running Scrub and > the

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-03-03 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Here's the information you requested. I'm wondering just how this happened. One of the messages refers to "beyond end of device". I'm alarmed. Regards, George... [ 2017.474378] BTRFS info (device sda8): scrub: started on devid 1 [ 2101.646773] BTRFS warnin

Re: when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-27 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/26/21 14:53, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: On 2/25/21 15:24, Chris Murphy wrote: An alternative is 'btrfs scrub start -BdR' which will not background the scrub, and will give a detailed report upon completion. Well I think tried all the combinations of scrub status with a

Re: when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:53 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > > > On 2/25/21 15:24, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > An alternative is 'btrfs scrub start -BdR' which will not background > > the scrub, and will give a detailed report upon completion. > &g

Re: when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-26 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/25/21 15:24, Chris Murphy wrote: An alternative is 'btrfs scrub start -BdR' which will not background the scrub, and will give a detailed report upon completion. Well I think tried all the combinations of scrub status with and without -B, -BdR, -dR to try and get status

Re: when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:25 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > Out of curiosity I ran scrub on the four machines I have handy here. I > always do clean installs so the btrfs doesn't have a lot of time on it; > just since F33 was released. Scrub is pretty performant regardless of f

Re: when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 09:25:04AM -0500, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > Scrub gives no indication that it's running other than the PID. Nor > does it indicate when it's complete; so I had to monitor the PID to > know when it was done. Then I had to run: > > sudo bt

Re: when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-25 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/24/21 20:48, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:26 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I recall a long and detailed discussion on this list before F33 was released concerning what disk maintenance would be required with BTRFS. As I recall, the final word was along the lines the

when to btrfs scrub, was: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:26 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > I recall a long and detailed discussion on this list before F33 was > released concerning what disk maintenance would be required with BTRFS. > As I recall, the final word was along the lines the running Scrub and >

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-23 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/23/21 10:58, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:18:13AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: sudo btrfs scrub start /mnt It's kind of unfortunate that we also have a command (in the distro since 2007) called just "scrub" which will destroy al of your data. :-/ Not g

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:18:13AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > sudo btrfs scrub start /mnt > > It's kind of unfortunate that we also have a command (in the distro since > > 2007) called just "scrub" which will destroy al of your data. :-/ > > Not goin

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-23 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:03 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > We should find out if there's more widespread corruption. The basic > > command to scrub that particular Btrfs file system is: > > > > s

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > We should find out if there's more widespread corruption. The basic > command to scrub that particular Btrfs file system is: > > sudo btrfs scrub start /mnt It's kind of unfortunate that we also have a comman

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 1:39 AM George R Goffe wrote: > Feb 21 18:55:38 fc35 kernel: BTRFS warning (device sda8): csum failed root > 256 ino 257 off 0 csum 0xe05b8b2e expected csum 0xc90f1f63 mirror 1 > Feb 21 18:55:38 fc35 kernel: BTRFS error (device sda8): bdev /dev/sda8 errs: >

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-22 Thread George R Goffe via test
lems either... hence the alarm. Regards, George...    from file command on /export/home/ext2_saved/image: Feb 21 18:50:29 fc35 kernel: BTRFS warning (device sda8): csum failed root 256 ino 257 off 0 csum 0xe05b8b2e expected csum 0xc90f1f63 mirror 1 Feb 21 18:50:29 fc35 kernel: BTRFS error (dev

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 4:16 PM George R Goffe wrote: >> On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 1:48:52 PM PST, Chris Murphy >> wrote: > That works for me. But you could alternatively try: > > mount /dev/vdb /mnt/btrfs > losetup -r /dev/loop0 /mnt/btrfs/ext2_saved/

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
a VM. It should work. Works for me. But I'm confused by your paths, i.e. are you really creating /ext2_saved and /ext4 in the root directory? Assume root user: mount /dev/vdb /mnt/btrfs # on this system here vdb is sda8. /mnt/btrfs is /export/home mount -t ext4 -o ro,loop /mnt/btrfs/ex

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:21 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > fc35-bash 5.1 ~# mount -t ext4 -o loop,ro /ext2_saved/image /ext4 > > mount: /ext4: can't read superblock on /dev/loop0. > > I don't know much about btrfs, but what does "file /ext2_saved/image" say? Go

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Thanks for responding. I'm pretty sure it was after conversion. George... On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 1:27:12 PM PST, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:16 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I have converted a large ext4 filesyste

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
m. That's unexpected though. I'm going to try it in a VM. It should work. Works for me. But I'm confused by your paths, i.e. are you really creating /ext2_saved and /ext4 in the root directory? Assume root user: mount /dev/vdb /mnt/btrfs mount -t ext4 -o ro,loop /mnt/btrfs/ext2_sa

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:16 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > fc35-bash 5.1 ~# mount -t ext4 -o loop,ro /ext2_saved/image /ext4 > mount: /ext4: can't read superblock on /dev/loop0. Hmm. That's unexpected though. I'm going to try it in a VM. It should work. -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:16 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I have converted a large ext4 filesystem to btrfs and by accident deleted an > important users home directory. Reading btrfs doc seems to imply that the > directory can be recovered without reverting

Re: Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/21/21 1:15 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote: I have converted a large ext4 filesystem to btrfs and by accident deleted an important users home directory. Reading btrfs doc seems to imply that the directory can be recovered without reverting the filesystem to ext4. First, you should

Need help with btrfs.

2021-02-21 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have converted a large ext4 filesystem to btrfs and by accident deleted an important users home directory. Reading btrfs doc seems to imply that the directory can be recovered without reverting the filesystem to ext4. What I've read seems to be telling me to mount the subv

Re: desktop spins, btrfs copy test request

2020-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 7:38 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for testers: > - Fedora 33 > - User home is on Btrfs (clean installed or converted, in a subvolume > or not, these details won't matter) > - using any spin other than Workstation (kde, l

Re: desktop spins, btrfs copy test request

2020-10-13 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:38 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for testers: > - Fedora 33 > - User home is on Btrfs (clean installed or converted, in a subvolume > or not, these details won't matter) > - using any spin other than Workstation (kde, l

Re: desktop spins, btrfs copy test request

2020-10-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 7:38 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Note 2: It's decently likely you will get the expected results if > /home is on XFS. Arguably if we get a result on Btrfs indicating I got distracted, and didn't finish the thought before clicking send! If the resu

desktop spins, btrfs copy test request

2020-10-13 Thread Chris Murphy
Hi, I'm looking for testers: - Fedora 33 - User home is on Btrfs (clean installed or converted, in a subvolume or not, these details won't matter) - using any spin other than Workstation (kde, lxqt, xfce, etc are all requested). I'd like to know which desktops do/don't a

Re: Questions about btrfs and fsck and fstab...

2020-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 2:00 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I have 2 VMs with ALL btrfs file systems AND a native (host) /opt of type > btrfs. I'm playing with compression in one of the VMs... > > I have run, in a VM, btrfs-convert and the other commands

Questions about btrfs and fsck and fstab...

2020-09-20 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I have 2 VMs with ALL btrfs file systems AND a native (host) /opt of type btrfs. I'm playing with compression in one of the VMs... I have run, in a VM, btrfs-convert and the other commands recommended by the man page for this command. It all looks good. It's not clear just what

Re: making a /boot partition into fs-type btrfs gives "unrecognizable file system" message from grub2

2020-09-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:14 AM George R Goffe wrote: > > Chris, > > Thank you for your help. > > I had to re-create the initramfs as well and, change fstab too. The process > was up hill in both directions... due to my fumbling. Sigh. > > I now have a VM FC34 x86_64 (

Re: making a /boot partition into fs-type btrfs gives "unrecognizable file system" message from grub2

2020-09-07 Thread George R Goffe via test
Chris, Thank you for your help. I had to re-create the initramfs as well and, change fstab too. The process was up hill in both directions... due to my fumbling. Sigh. I now have a VM FC34 x86_64 (Rawhide) running with btrfs file systems. After a few upgrades I did an "init 0" co

Re: making a /boot partition into fs-type btrfs gives "unrecognizable file system" message from grub2

2020-09-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:42 PM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm playing around with FC34 ina VM and have backed up /boot; put a btrfs fs > on the partition; restored from the backup, updated fstab but grub2 still > goes into rescue mode. This tells me t

making a /boot partition into fs-type btrfs gives "unrecognizable file system" message from grub2

2020-09-02 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm playing around with FC34 ina VM and have backed up /boot; put a btrfs fs on the partition; restored from the backup, updated fstab but grub2 still goes into rescue mode. This tells me that there's something I don't know which is entirely possible. Could it be a missin

[Test Week] F33 Btrfs by default starts 2020-08-31

2020-08-29 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All, A new change proposal has been submitted for the Fedora 33 release cycle which entails the usage of Btrfs by default [0] for Workstations and Spins across x86_64 and ARM architectures, As a result, we have organized a test week from Monday, Aug 31, 2020. As a part of this test week, we

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-26 Thread Chris Murphy
uld probably make this a Test Case. And discuss making > it a release blocking criterion, as it's a significant feature. We've > always had this capability with LVM+ext4 because /home was a separate > file system that you can just reuse. And the steps are pretty much the > same

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-25 Thread Alessio
On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 13:12 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > 1. Create /boot/efi or BIOS Boot mount point (can be reused or > reformatted) > 2. Create /boot mount point (can be reused or reformatted) > 3. Create / mount point (this is required to be a new subvolume) Ah. Ok, this is the point. I was tr

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 8/24/20 3:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 1:18 PM Brandon Nielsen wrote: [Snip] Is the "I would like to make additional space available" checkbox going to grow subvolume support? Right now your only option is to blow away the entire btrfs volume from

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Chris Murphy
> 5. Click on that subvolume, and on the right hand side at the top, > > find Mount Point field; type in /home; click Update Settings button. > > 6. Click Done > > > > This is a rough draft :) I'm going by memory. > > > > Is the "I would like to make a

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Brandon Nielsen
w subvolume support? Right now your only option is to blow away the entire btrfs volume from a previous install. ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Chris Murphy
. > 6. Click Done > > This is a rough draft :) I'm going by memory. In fact, we should probably make this a Test Case. And discuss making it a release blocking criterion, as it's a significant feature. We've always had this capability with LVM+ext4 because

Re: Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:40 AM Alessio wrote: > > Hello. > I was performing some random test of F33. > There is a thing that I can't understand. > If I reinstall the system on an disk where I already installed Fedora > 33 before, and I want to preserve the content of the home subvolume, is > this

Preserving the home on btrfs

2020-08-24 Thread Alessio
Hello. I was performing some random test of F33. There is a thing that I can't understand. If I reinstall the system on an disk where I already installed Fedora 33 before, and I want to preserve the content of the home subvolume, is this feasible? I tried various things using Anaconda, but I'm stil

Re: btrfs missing/broken from anaconda install dialogues

2020-08-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:30 AM George R Goffe via test wrote: > > Hi, > > I was reading about filesystems in Linux, specifically RedHat systems, and > there was a lot about btrfs and how good it is. > > With this in mind, I tried to install my favorite Fedora Core syst

Re: btrfs missing/broken from anaconda install dialogues

2020-08-13 Thread s40w5s
Hello George, BTRFS is definitely supported by Anaconda. I installed Fedora 33 Silverblue Rawhide onto BTRFS. I believe the installer uses a default layout if you choose the btrfs option with automatic partition layout. Of course I haven't tried a VM of it. F32 (current stable release) is ab

btrfs missing/broken from anaconda install dialogues

2020-08-13 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I was reading about filesystems in Linux, specifically RedHat systems, and there was a lot about btrfs and how good it is. With this in mind, I tried to install my favorite Fedora Core system (Currently FC33) uner QEMU, but saw in the custom partitioning part of the dialogues that btrfs

Re: BTRFS testing Rawhide 0703 WS

2020-07-21 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 7/20/20 21:34, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: That's a misleading log message; see e.g. this discussion https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=231884 You probably want to use this to check the actual RAID level. btrfs filesystem df / source: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/inde

Re: BTRFS testing Rawhide 0703 WS

2020-07-20 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 14:38 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > Also, I don't understand why this is raid6 There is only one disk in > my > test machine. Also I did nothing in the btrfs settings to call for a > raid. I just took the btrfs defaults. > That's a

Re: btrfs testing rawhide 0703

2020-07-17 Thread Kamil Paral
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 7:19 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > I think the test case just needs to be enhanced with a better grep to > exclude the raid6 module's message; while still including FAT, XFS, > ext4, and adding the new Btrfs treelog message. I'm not good enough > with

Reclaim space from btrfs partition

2020-07-13 Thread Brandon Nielsen
In attempting to test the latest nominated compose, I encountered issues attempting to do a guided reclaim of space from a btrfs partition created by the btrfs test day compose. I submitted a bug report[0] and can try getting more information if someone has ideas for what would be most

Re: btrfs testing rawhide 0703

2020-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
f this is a problem or if we need to update the testcase for > >>> btrfs. I've attached the journal file for your reading pleasure. > > > > This is a good point. The testcase needs two updates. The one > > previously mentioned which is not an fs journal recover

Re: btrfs testing rawhide 0703

2020-07-11 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 7/9/20 10:31, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:46 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: However as I look at the journal it's not clear if this is a problem or if we need to update the testcase for btrfs. I've attached the journal file for your reading pleasure. This

Re: btrfs testing rawhide 0703

2020-07-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:46 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > However as I look at the journal it's not > > clear if this is a problem or if we need to update the testcase for > > btrfs. I've attached the journal file for your reading pleasure. This is a good poin

Re: btrfs testing rawhide 0703

2020-07-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:46 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > I have been testing btrfs in a fresh install of Rawhide 0703 WS. I've > mostly been doing my home grown "as deployed testing". So far the only > potential maybe problem I can see is when I do the > (QA:T

Re: [Test Day] F33 Btrfs by default is 2020-07-08 *TODAY*

2020-07-07 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 12:55 AM Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > Hey All, > > A new change proposal has been submitted for the Fedora 33 release > cycle which entails usage of btrfs by default [0] for Workstations and > Spins across x86_64 and ARM architectures As a result, we hav

[Test Day] F33 Btrfs by default is 2020-07-08 *TODAY*

2020-07-07 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All, A new change proposal has been submitted for the Fedora 33 release cycle which entails usage of btrfs by default [0] for Workstations and Spins across x86_64 and ARM architectures As a result, we have organized a test day on Wed, July 08, 2020. As a part of this test day, we will aim at

Re: btrfs testing

2020-07-07 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
provide a checkbox for deleting all related partitions. Check that, then click "OK". It should clear them out. If there's any more you want to delete, rinse and repeat. Then you can use the drop down menu to select Btrfs and have it create the layout as you attempted before. Thank y

Re: btrfs testing

2020-07-06 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:43 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > > After the QA meeting today, I spent a few hours trying the get Rawhide > 0703 WS Live installed with btrfs. > > I have Rawhide 0703 WS Live on a thumb drive. I know this works fine > when taking the defaul

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