Re: undo make-bcache (was: Re: Can't mount an encrypted backing device)

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Em seg, 13 de jan de 2020 11:19, Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
> On 2020/1/13 8:44 下午, Jens-U. Mozdzen wrote:
> > Hi Coly,
> >
> > jumping in here, because I was looking for a way to revert from bcache
> > to plain device:
> >
> > Zitat von Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx>:
> >> The super block location of the backing disk is occupied by bcache. You
> >> cannot mount the file system directly from the backing disk which is
> >> formated as bcache backing device [...] (bcache offset all I/Os on
> >> bcache device 4KB behind the requesting
> >> LBA on backing disk).
> >
> > Assuming that no caching device is associated with a backing device (so
> > the backing device is "clean" as in "containing all data blocks with the
> > current content"), could one convert the content of a backing device to
> > a "non-bcached device" by removing the first 4096 octets of the backing
> > device content?
> >
> > Something like "dd if=backingdev of=newdev skip_bytes=4096 ..."?
>
> Hi Jens-U,
>
> you may try dmsetup to setup a linear device mapper target, and the map
> table just skipping the first 4KB (bcache superblock area). If you are
> lucky, I mean the real file system is not corrupted, the created device
> mapper target can be mounted directly.


I'm trying dmsetup but it does not accept anything other than 0 and 0
at the beginning and end of the table:

# echo '0 3774578672 linear /dev/mapper/backing-device 8' | dmsetup create dmb
device-mapper: reload ioctl on dmb  failed: Invalid argument
Command failed.

# echo '8 3774578664 linear /dev/mapper/backing-device 0' | dmsetup create dmb
device-mapper: reload ioctl on dmb  failed: Invalid argument
Command failed.

I'm not sure about how it works. Is it not 8 sectors for 4k bytes?


Clodoaldo

>
> --
>
> Coly Li
>




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