From efaf218a8078f6ab8ab057ebb39b9042992e3844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Sterba Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:45:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: convert btrfs-rescue to rst Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- Documentation/btrfs-rescue.rst | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/conf.py | 1 + Documentation/man-index.rst | 1 + 3 files changed, 118 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/btrfs-rescue.rst diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-rescue.rst b/Documentation/btrfs-rescue.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f3e73f19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-rescue.rst @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +btrfs-rescue(8) +=============== + +SYNOPSIS +-------- + +**btrfs rescue** + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +**btrfs rescue** is used to try to recover a damaged btrfs filesystem. + +SUBCOMMAND +---------- + +chunk-recover [options] + Recover the chunk tree by scanning the devices + + ``Options`` + + -y + assume an answer of *yes* to all questions. + -h + help. + -v + (deprecated) alias for global *-v* option + + +.. note:: + Since **chunk-recover** will scan the whole device, it will be very + slow especially executed on a large device. + +fix-device-size + fix device size and super block total bytes values that are do not match + + Kernel 4.11 starts to check the device size more strictly and this might + mismatch the stored value of total bytes. See the exact error message below. + Newer kernel will refuse to mount the filesystem where the values do not match. + This error is not fatal and can be fixed. This command will fix the device + size values if possible. + + .. code-block:: none + + BTRFS error (device sdb): super_total_bytes 92017859088384 mismatch with fs_devices total_rw_bytes 92017859094528 + + The mismatch may also exhibit as a kernel warning: + + .. code-block:: none + + WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 439 at fs/btrfs/ctree.h:1559 btrfs_update_device+0x1c5/0x1d0 [btrfs] + +super-recover [options] + Recover bad superblocks from good copies. + + ``Options`` + + -y + assume an answer of *yes* to all questions. + -v + (deprecated) alias for global *-v* option + +zero-log + clear the filesystem log tree + + This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific + set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay. See below + for sample stacktraces that may show up in system log. + + The common case where this happens was fixed a long time ago, + so it is unlikely that you will see this particular problem, but the command is + kept around. + + .. note:: + Clearing the log may lead to loss of changes that were made + since the last transaction commit. This may be up to 30 seconds + (default commit period) or less if the commit was implied by + other filesystem activity. + + One can determine whether **zero-log** is needed according to the kernel + backtrace: + + .. code-block:: none + + ? replay_one_dir_item+0xb5/0xb5 [btrfs] + ? walk_log_tree+0x9c/0x19d [btrfs] + ? btrfs_read_fs_root_no_radix+0x169/0x1a1 [btrfs] + ? btrfs_recover_log_trees+0x195/0x29c [btrfs] + ? replay_one_dir_item+0xb5/0xb5 [btrfs] + ? btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0x76/0xbc [btrfs] + ? open_ctree+0xff6/0x132c [btrfs] + + If the errors are like above, then **zero-log** should be used to clear + the log and the filesystem may be mounted normally again. The keywords to look + for are 'open_ctree' which says that it's during mount and function names + that contain *replay*, *recover* or *log_tree*. + +EXIT STATUS +----------- + +**btrfs rescue** returns a zero exit status if it succeeds. Non zero is +returned in case of failure. + +AVAILABILITY +------------ + +*btrfs* is part of btrfs-progs. +Please refer to the btrfs wiki http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for +further details. + +SEE ALSO +-------- + +``mkfs.btrfs(8)``, +``btrfs-scrub(8)``, +``btrfs-check(8)`` diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py index 567864b0..d581c174 100644 --- a/Documentation/conf.py +++ b/Documentation/conf.py @@ -46,4 +46,5 @@ man_pages = [ ('btrfs-send', 'btrfs-send', 'generate a stream of changes between two subvolume snapshots', '', 8), ('btrfs-scrub', 'btrfs-scrub', 'scrub btrfs filesystem, verify block checksums', '', 8), ('btrfs-restore', 'btrfs-restore', 'try to restore files from a damaged filesystem image', '', 8), + ('btrfs-rescue', 'btrfs-rescue', 'recover a damaged btrfs filesystem', '', 8), ] diff --git a/Documentation/man-index.rst b/Documentation/man-index.rst index 2b7fdc42..fb5f18b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/man-index.rst +++ b/Documentation/man-index.rst @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Manual pages .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + btrfs-rescue btrfs-restore btrfs-scrub btrfs-select-super