> Everything online hints that attempting repair is particularly > dangerous, but what else am I to do?
You sum up my experience with BTRFS. I too was "scared" off from it and reformatted my BTRFS partitions and went back to ext4 -- it's a known quantity fit for humans with tons of advice of how to handle problems/errors. -- "The US has never had a 'foreign policy' but a fanatical domestic policy which, once it had bled through to the Pacific, sought new hosts on which to feed." -- Patrick Wilkinson.
