On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:13:00PM +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Hugo,
> 
> Du meintest am 04.08.11:
> 
> >    What are the symptoms of not having the device node? (i.e. how
> > would I diagnose this particular problem?)
> 
> The days get shorter and shorter ...
> 
> running
> 
>         btrfs device scan
> 
> produces something like
> 
> ...
> failed to read /dev/hdc
> failed to read /dev/hdc8
> failed to read /dev/lmscd
> failed to read /dev/sdc1
> failed to read /dev/sdb4
> failed to open /dev/btrfs-control skipping device registration

   OK, that's the symptom we can put in the problems list for this
particular issue.

> failed to read /dev/sdd8
> failed to read /dev/hdc9
> failed to read /dev/sdf8
> ...
> 
> a lot of error messages for not existing devices and 1 error messages on  
> behalf of "btrfs-control".
> 
> My "/dev" directory has worked (without "udev") without any problem for  
> more than 10 years, it contains (has contained) a lot of entries for  
> nearly every case of disk. Therefore i had started with
> 
>         btrfs device scan 2>/dev/null
> 
> and that deleted the "btrfs-control" error message too. And
> 
>         btrfs device scan 2>&1 | grep -v 'failed to'
> 
> didn't help too.

   Goffredo published a patch to scan only the contents of
/proc/partitions, which should at least shut up the scan over the
issue of non-existent devices in /dev. That's in the next
integration-* branch (going out shortly... I'm just integrating and
updating the balance management patches before i release).

>         btrfs-show
> 
> doesn't need "/dev/btrfs-control", it shows the existing btrfs  
> partition(s).
> 
> If I remember correct: mounting works, writing works, reading works. And  
> adding another partition works.
> 
> But there are strange messages when I try to resize or delete.
> 
> I'll try to reproduce these messages ...

   Thanks. We can add those as symptoms to the solution later.

   How's this?

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Problem_FAQ#I_get_the_message_.22failed_to_open_.2Fdev.2Fbtrfs-control_skipping_device_registration.22_from_.22btrfs_dev_scan.22

   Hugo.

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