On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:22 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:11 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 02:01:56AM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> > If I don't have ECC does that mean I shouldn't use BTRFS ?
>
> The chance of data corruption due to memory errors is rare, but it does
> happen. If it happened and you were using ext4, the result wouldn't be that
> everything is fine, it's that you'd have corrupted data -- hopefully not
> important, but... you won't know.
>
> Now, I don't think btrfs's current state of "now your system won't boot and
> you need to be an expert to figure out what's going on" is ideal either, but
> it's a rare situation and recovery tools will improve.
>
With the amount of time that Chris and everyone else put into this, I
just hope this bug is fixed for good.
No bug has been identified.
Have you gone through the numbered list and tried to repair? It is important you install specifically the btrfs-progs in that email. It has an enhancement for this particular kind of damage.
--
Chris Murphy
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