On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:22 AM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 1/9/21 9:09 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > I mean, this is the reason I keep complaining that BTRFS is not stable enough. > > ... > > So is this a problem of my machine/firmware or a problem in BTRFS itself ? > > > Since I haven't seen it asked yet: Does this system have ECC RAM? > > I don't want to shortcut the debugging process or suggest that I think > there are no bugs in btrfs, but one of the things we expected to happen > in the move to checksummed filesystems is that bits that flipped in > memory and then got written to disk were going to be discovered, where > older filesystems had no way to discover that. In those cases, bailing > out and informing you that corruption was found isn't a sign that the > system is "not stable enough", it's the desired outcome of actually > checking the results. https://askubuntu.com/a/391178/628460 Will the above work in telling me if I have ECC RAM ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
