From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Helmut Hullen" Subject: Re: INSTALL hint: create device btrfs-control Date: 04 Aug 2011 23:26:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20110804204219.GB8970@carfax.org.uk> Reply-To: helmut@hullen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110804204219.GB8970@carfax.org.uk> List-ID: Hallo, Hugo, Du meintest am 04.08.11: >> ... >> 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. [...] > 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). That sounds fine - thanks to you and to Goffredo! >> I'll try to reproduce these messages ... > Thanks. We can add those as symptoms to the solution later. I've just run the first test - finding reliable (for only this case) messages is a bad job ... > How's this? > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Problem_FAQ#I_get_the_message > _.22failed_to_open_.2Fdev.2Fbtrfs-control_skipping_device_registratio > n.22_from_.22btrfs_dev_scan.22 There's some problem in the Wiki. This new paragraph (?) is not shown when I call the "Problem_FAQ", it ends with the "Copy-on-write doesn't work" question. When I look into the source code of that page I can see and read the paragraph, and it looks fine! Viele Gruesse! Helmut