btrfs-tools missing "btrfs device delete devid=x path" ?

I'm still doing some testing so that I can write some howto.

I got that far after a rebalance (mmmh, that took 2 days with little data, and unfortunately 5 deadlocks and reboots.

polgara:/mnt/btrfs_backupcopy# btrfs fi show
Label: backupcopy  uuid: eed9b55c-1d5a-40bf-a032-1be6980648e1
        Total devices 11 FS bytes used 114.35GiB
        devid    1 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/dm-0
        devid    2 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/mapper/crypt_sdd1
        devid    3 size 465.75GiB used 0.00 path  <----  drive is freed up now.
        devid    4 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/dm-2
        devid    5 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/dm-3
        devid    6 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/dm-4
        devid    7 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/mapper/crypt_sdi1
        devid    8 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/dm-6
        devid    9 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/mapper/crypt_sdk1
        devid    10 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/mapper/crypt_sdl1
        devid    11 size 465.76GiB used 32.14GiB path /dev/mapper/crypt_sde1
Btrfs v3.12

What's the syntax for removing a drive that isn't there?

I'm looking for something like

polgara:/mnt/btrfs_backupcopy# btrfs device delete devid=3 .
ERROR: error removing the device 'devid=3' - No such file or directory

Until I can remove it, not surprisingly, even though device 3 is now unused, I still need to mount degraded:

polgara:~# mount -v -t btrfs -o compress=zlib,space_cache,noatime LABEL=backupcopy /mnt/btrfs_backupcopy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/crypt_sde1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

[28865.527656] BTRFS: open devid=3 failed
[29777.507022] BTRFS: device label backupcopy devid 11 transid 5137 /dev/mapper/crypt_sde1
[29777.558874] BTRFS info (device dm-9): disk space caching is enabled
[29777.566997] BTRFS: failed to read chunk tree on dm-9
[29777.612041] BTRFS: open_ctree failed

polgara:~# mount -v -t btrfs -o compress=zlib,space_cache,noatime,degraded LABEL=backupcopy /mnt/btrfs_backupcopy
/dev/mapper/crypt_sde1 on /mnt/btrfs_backupcopy type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zlib,space_cache,degraded)
polgara:~# 

This works.

I think if I get that last step working, I will have succcessfully removed a raid5 drive, added a new drive, rebalanced existing data on it, and removed the old one.

Thanks,
Marc

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btrfs dev del missing /path

Removes all the missing devices.

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Aaah, this worked, thank you.
This isn't documented in the 3.12 man page, but I'm guessing it'll be in the upcoming 3.14.

I'll document this in the raid5 page I'm currently writing.

Thanks,
Marc

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Marc MERLIN posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:25:06 -0700 as excerpted:

It's on the wiki as I remembered, covered on the multiple devices page.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices#Removing_devices

(FWIW it's pretty safe to say that if it was in the wiki, at least in the user docs section, I saw it before I ever did my first mkfs.btrfs, as I pretty much scoured the wiki, then asked some questions not covered there here as well, before I actually tried to use it. Unlike some people I actually tend to read the instructions before trying to use stuff I buy, too. =:^)

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So, I did read the entire wiki, but it's been a while, and either some things got added since then, or some I just didn't remember because I didn't need them at the time.
The problem, and we've talked about this before (my plea to make btrfsck put a "--really-I-read-the-wiki-and-want-this" :) option as well as minimal instructions in its usage that tell the unsuspecting user it's not what they're looking for, here too, I carefully re-read the man page for btrfs and this wasn't mentioned in it, or at least in my copy.
Out of sync docs happens, but I'm hopeful that the man page and tools --help info can be the canonical place for info, even if they can point to a wiki link since the average admin will always fail back to --help/--usage and the man page first before looking for a missing option in a wiki somewhere else.

Does that sound reasonable?

Marc

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