I thought this would go to the list automatically. Here it is now.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evert Vorster <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable To: Chris Ball <[email protected]> I lost a btrfs not long ago, and this is the reason I am on this list. Lucky for me, I have more than one backup of everything. Most people that use computers do not. Also, they unplug USB disks without unmounting, etc.... I don't think the signboards are big enough. Most people assume that there is some way of fixing a broken file system, and finding out the btrfs does not have one usually is quite surprising and just a little too late. I was under the impression that with atomic writes it's impossible to mess up a file system? -Evert- On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Chris Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > the other big question is: > > > > Is btrfs with 2.6.36 really rockstable and ready to use in > > productive environments? > > No, certainly not until there's a working fsck tool -- at the moment > it's rather easy to kill a btrfs by just losing power. > > I just added a paragraph to the main page of the wiki about this, > since we've had a few people on IRC express surprise that their > filesystem aren't fixable after power loss. Feel free to reword: > > Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors. > While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible > to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or > loses power. This will be fixed when the fsck tool is ready. > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball <[email protected]> > One Laptop Per Child > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- http://magnatune.com - Music shared the way it should be. -- http://magnatune.com - Music shared the way it should be. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
