From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from slmp-550-94.slc.westdc.net ([50.115.112.57]:36694 "EHLO slmp-550-94.slc.westdc.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754297Ab3H2U2n convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:28:43 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Subject: Re: Question: How can I recover this partition? (unable to find logical $hugenum len 4096) From: Chris Murphy In-Reply-To: <2D27D640-86E0-4E49-8874-81249DF9919A@colorremedies.com> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:28:40 -0600 Cc: Zach Brown , Nick Lee , linux-btrfs Message-Id: References: <6A12FF1B-5E1A-4F6F-92DA-41E52152E6F2@nickle.es> <20130826193110.GO3115@carfax.org.uk> <20130829173519.GN26818@lenny.home.zabbo.net> <528DF163-08F5-412D-8351-ACC853AC418D@colorremedies.com> <20130829194049.GR3115@carfax.org.uk> <0E1979CF-25EC-47B2-B74E-9870F3D9C626@colorremedies.com> <20130829195322.GS3115@carfax.org.uk> <2D27D640-86E0-4E49-8874-81249DF9919A@colorremedies.com> To: Hugo Mills Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Aug 29, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:44:54PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Certainly, if known for sure it won't be more than 30 seconds? >> >> Mmm... it'll depend on the setting of the commit period, which up >> until a couple of weeks ago was always 30s, but someone posted a patch >> to give it a config knob… > > > > "Proceeding will roll back the file system to a previous state, and may cause the loss of successfully written data since the last commit period (30 seconds by default). Proceed? (Y/N)" And an important side question is whether "may" is the correct word, or if it should be "will" cause loss of… Chris Murphy