Hello everyone, I have a corrupted filesystem which I can't seem to recover. The machine is: Debian Linux, kernel 4.9 and btrfs-progs v4.13.3 I have a HDD RAID5 with LVM and the volume in question is a LVM volume. On top of that I had a RAID1 SSD cache with lvm-cache. Yesterday both! SSDs died within minutes. This lead to the corruped filesystem that I have now. I hope I followed the procedure correctly. What I tried so far: * "mount -o usebackuproot,ro " and "nospace_cache" "clear_cache" and all permutations of these mount options I'm getting: [96926.830400] BTRFS info (device dm-2): trying to use backup root at mount time [96926.830406] BTRFS info (device dm-2): disk space caching is enabled [96926.927978] BTRFS error (device dm-2): parent transid verify failed on 321269628928 wanted 3276017 found 3275985 [96926.938619] BTRFS error (device dm-2): parent transid verify failed on 321269628928 wanted 3276017 found 3275985 [96926.940705] BTRFS error (device dm-2): failed to recover balance: -5 [96926.985801] BTRFS error (device dm-2): open_ctree failed The weird thing is that I can't really find information about the "failed to recover balance: -5" error. - There was no rebalancing running when during the crash. * btrfs-find-root: https://pastebin.com/qkjnSUF7 - It bothers me that I don't see any "good generations" as described here: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Restore * "btrfs rescue" - it starts, then goes to "looping on XYZ" then stops * "btrfs rescue super-recover -v" gives: All Devices: Device: id = 1, name = /dev/vg00/... Before Recovering: [All good supers]: device name = /dev/vg00/... superblock bytenr = 65536 device name = /dev/vg00/... superblock bytenr = 67108864 device name = /dev/vg00/... superblock bytenr = 274877906944 [All bad supers]: All supers are valid, no need to recover * Unfortunatly I did a "btrfs rescue zero-log" at some point :( - As it turns out that might have been a bad idea * Also, a "btrfs check --init-extent-tree" - https://pastebin.com/jATDCFZy The volume contained qcow2 images for VMs. I need only one of those, since one piece of important software decided to not do backups :( Any help is highly appreciated. Many thanks, udo.