Hello Raghav, Raghav Gururajan <raghavgurura...@disroot.org> writes:
> Hi! > >> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >>> I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a >>> failing drive was established as the most likely culprit. >>> >>> In other words, Btrfs checksuming capabilities helped quickly >>> discovering a hardware problem which might otherwise have silently >>> caused non-recoverable damage to Raghav's data. >> >> Good, thanks for following up! >> >> Ludo’. > > Thank you! > > Yeah, seems like my disk is shot, but I am not sure. I have reinstalled > guix with ext4, instead of btrfs, as these issues started to arise after > migration to btrfs from ext4. So far, my system is doing well. Lets see > how it goes. :-) Sounds like playing with fire to me :-). Ext4 won't detect bitrot (silent corruption of your drive's data). You'll probably wake one day with a fsck that won't be able to recover some files, or worst, a completely dead drive. Your backups would also contain corrupted data (garbage in, garbage out!). Maxim
