Looks like Chris Mason (the lead BTRFS developer @ Oracle) is a fan of Arch Linux... :) -Tim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Btrfs rescue images Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:02:01 -0400 From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090616005319.GA3735@think> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:53:19PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:

Hello everyone,

As Linus discovered, the new btrfs disk format in 2.6.31-git can be problematic if your FS gets forward rolled to the new format and you end up bisecting back to the old code.

It would also be nice to have a way to run btrfsck on a root filesystem and do other assorted tasks. So, I'm making live boot usb images for both x86 and x86-64.

They should have enough to get your filesystems mounted and they also include git, gcc, make and enough to compile the kernel. These are based on the Arch 2.6.30 distro with just the btrfs newformat code added.

I've got the 32 bit image uploaded, and I'll queue up 64 bit overnight. If anyone is feeling brave, just dd the image onto a usb stick and rescue boot away.

They work on both of my test boxes, but a little extra testing would be nice.

Well, I had the link in my paste buffer, but it helps to actually paste it. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mason/btrfs-boot-images/ -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html