On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:22 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:11 AM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > 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. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4G52PRZ4ETFSXCSOJYFBGP6H64FRSRZT/ -- Chris Murphy
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