Re: Extra write mode to close RAID5 write hole (kind of)

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 03:07:20PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> The only situation where data damage can happen is a power outage that
> comes together with a loss of one of the drives. In such a case, the
> content of any blocks written past the last barrier is undefined. It
> then depends on the filesystem whether it can revert to the last sane
> state. Not sure about others, but btrfs will do so.

It's not any data written since the last barrier - in a non COW filesystem,
potentially the entire stripe is toast, which means existing unrelated data gets
corrupted. There's nothing really a non COW filesystem can do about it.
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