can't access private folder / metadata is of a version (4) we can't read
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Description
I can no longer access my private folder from any of my devices (FreeBSD 11.3 & 12.1 boxes):
% ls keybase/private/rostwald/
ls: keybase/private/rostwald/: Input/output error
% keybase fs ls /keybase/private/rostwald
▶ ERROR The metadata for folder d677311ba7aae4d7af3895a3a4d68d16 is of a version (4) that we can't read
log ID: eeeb9e94a84502cd9e2fbc1c
I have recent backups of everything in there, but I wouldn't mind if it would just work again...
There were no changes on 2 of the 3 machines, the third machine I'm mounting kbfs from has recently been updated to FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE. Not sure if this is related as I wasn't able to access the private kbfs folder from both other machines around the same time (I don't access the mounts every day...). At first I suspected an outage as we had several BGP routing outages in germany at the time so I didn't look into it immediately...
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Reproduce the failure with keybase fs ls /keybase/private/rostwald and inspect the reported log ID eeeb9e94a84502cd9e2fbc1c across the FreeBSD 11.3 and 12.1 systems. Trace why metadata version 4 cannot be read and verify that the private folder becomes accessible again without losing its contents.
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