Re: Btrfs: wipe all the superblock [redhat bugzilla 889888]

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Karel,
> 
> On 01/08/2013 07:01 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:28:55PM +0100, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
>>> If the first superblock is valid except that the "magic field" is zeroed,
>>> btrfs skips the check of the other superblocks.
>>> If the first superblock is fully invalid, btrfs checks for the other
>>> superblock.
>> 
>> Hmm... why inconsistent (or missing) superblock is not reported as a
>> problem? If I good understand the filesystem is still mountable,
>> right?
> 
> It should, however my tests were unsuccessful :-(... Chris ?

I haven't tried mounting after wipefs, only after wipefs and subsequent mkfs.ext4; in that case the file system mounts without error as ext4. If I use mount -t btrfs I get an error. I haven't tried mounting with -t btrfs -o recovery.

Chris Murphy--
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