Re: Leveldb in google-chrome incompatible with btrfs?

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 02:13:20PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:00:46AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I don't know who else uses google-chrome here, but for me, for as long as
> > I've used btrfs (3+ years now), I've had no end of troubles recovering from
> > a linux crash, and google-chrome has had problems recovering my tabs and
> > usually cmoplains about plenty of problems, some are corruption looking.
> 
> I've also had issues with chrome and Btrfs, not just you.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Does anyone know if it's leveldb relying on non POSIX semantics that just
> > happen to work out on ext4, or if btrfs COW and atomicity doesn't quite
> > handle multi file updates in a way that is expected by a spec, or by
> > application developers?
> 
> A quick google search turned this up: https://github.com/google/leveldb/issues/195.
> Unless anything has changed since that issue was last updated, it does
> sound like LevelDB is making some unsafe assumptions. I'll take a look.

Thanks Omar, this very much looks related indeed.

Marc
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