systemd journal interaction with btrfs, unfixable corruption

[Chris Murphy]

I'm seeing corruption occur after doing a balance of a btrfs volume. Scrubs before the balance are error free. Scrubs after balance have many errors, so far all seem to be either unlisted or point to a systemd-journal log path. Example:

[  318.029771] btrfs: checksum error at logical 2209439744 on dev /dev/sda4, sector 6412464, root 256, inode 25764, offset 6746112, length 4096, links 1 (path: var/log/journal/10db2764a11a4829bf82a94c6559d121/system.journal)

Further, this is not a corruption of btrfs metadata, but data itself:

[   19.354354] systemd-journald[210]: /var/log/journal/8e4cbfea404512ae70096c6202c9a3bf/system.journal: Journal file corrupted, rotating.

If I change systemd-journaling to volatile storage, erase the persistent storage location logs, reboot, and try to reproduce the problem, I can't. There are some reports of VM images on btrfs being corrupted somehow (although I don't think it's related to balance, I could be wrong), and the solution is to set VM images to nodatacow. So I wonder if there's some behavior of systemd journaling that's similar?

Bug is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1011714



Chris Murphy

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