Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 03:07:31 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote:

> Am Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:47:07 +0100
> schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
>
> > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:38:03 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > > This is almost certainly a bug in btrfs-progs, or maybe the btrfs
> > > filesystem driver in the kernel.
> >
> > The latter, a later kernel appears to have done the trick.
> >
> > > I'd suggest raising this on the btrfs mailing list, where it is
> > > going to get a lot more attention from the people who develop
> > > btrfs.  There are a few of us who use it around here, but I'd have
> > > to spend a day tweaking the btrfs-progs source to have a guess at
> > > where this is bailing out.  I suspect somebody over there would
> > > have an answer almost immediately.
> >
> > As our resident btrfs expert, I was expecting you to come up with an
> > immediate answer ;-)
>
> Have you tried an explicit "btrfs dev scan"? If that helps, problems
> maybe arise from the udev rules...

I tried that. It turned out the problem was that my kernel was too old.
Switching to the alt kernel on the CD fixed it.


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