Hi, As the topic says, btrfs check - Couldn't open file system. Check runs fine on all btrfs volumes except one - "Backup". There is nothing special about it, it uses the same options as all the other ones (raid1, compress). As you can see in the output below I double check the filesystem is unmounted, and then try and check it (using a few different devices) but it won't work. Checking another volume works fine. There are no error or warning messages in dmesg. Any ideas?? Thanks, Paul. IWT-VM ~ # uname -a Linux IWT-VM 3.17.2-gentoo #1 SMP Mon Nov 3 15:46:50 AEDT 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux IWT-VM ~ # mount /dev/sdb2 on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zlib,ssd,noacl,space_cache) /dev/sdh1 on /media/fast type btrfs (rw,noatime,ssd,noacl,space_cache) /dev/sdg3 on /media/backup type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zlib,noacl,space_cache) /dev/sda1 on /media/data type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zlib,noacl,space_cache) IWT-VM ~ # btrfs fi sh Label: 'Root' uuid: 61f6ce80-6d05-414f-9f0f-3d540fa82f2e Total devices 2 FS bytes used 6.58GiB devid 4 size 60.00GiB used 18.03GiB path /dev/sdb2 devid 5 size 59.93GiB used 18.03GiB path /dev/sdi3 Label: 'Fast' uuid: c41dc6db-6f00-4d60-a2f7-acbceb25e4e7 Total devices 3 FS bytes used 396.85GiB devid 1 size 471.93GiB used 416.02GiB path /dev/sdh1 devid 2 size 412.00GiB used 356.01GiB path /dev/sdi1 devid 3 size 163.57GiB used 108.01GiB path /dev/sdb1 Label: 'Backup' uuid: 92162be2-e52f-42fe-a9fd-da4f26c6abd1 Total devices 5 FS bytes used 2.74TiB devid 6 size 891.50GiB used 822.00GiB path /dev/sdg3 devid 8 size 698.64GiB used 629.00GiB path /dev/sdd1 devid 9 size 891.51GiB used 821.03GiB path /dev/sde3 devid 10 size 2.73TiB used 2.66TiB path /dev/sdc1 devid 11 size 931.51GiB used 924.00GiB path /dev/sdf1 Label: 'Data' uuid: 89181f84-bace-43f8-9534-693f99c4d033 Total devices 2 FS bytes used 42.50GiB devid 1 size 279.46GiB used 211.03GiB path /dev/sda1 devid 2 size 279.46GiB used 211.03GiB path /dev/sdj1 Btrfs v3.17 IWT-VM ~ # umount /media/backup umount: /media/backup: not mounted IWT-VM ~ # btrfs check /dev/sdg3 Couldn't open file system IWT-VM ~ # btrfs check /dev/sdd1 Couldn't open file system IWT-VM ~ # btrfs check /dev/sde3 Couldn't open file system IWT-VM ~ # btrfs check /dev/sda1 Checking filesystem on /dev/sda1 UUID: 89181f84-bace-43f8-9534-693f99c4d033 checking extents checking free space cache checking fs roots checking csums checking root refs found 38060448123 bytes used err is 0 total csum bytes: 44401072 total tree bytes: 110723072 total fs tree bytes: 50872320 total extent tree bytes: 9994240 btree space waste bytes: 12145264 file data blocks allocated: 45618331648 referenced 48120782848 Btrfs v3.17 -- 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