Re: Leveldb in google-chrome incompatible with btrfs?

[Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:59:39PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:44:51PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > In the bug report, you commented that CURRENT contained MANIFEST-010814,
> > is that indeed the case or was it actually something newer? If it was
> > the newer one, then it's still tricky how we'd end up that way but not
> > as outlandish.
> 
> You are correct, my bad.
> At this point, I'm going to have to assume that something bad happened with
> rsync when I rsync'ed an old profile over the one that caused chrome to fail
> to restart.
> Especially because CURRENT was dated Oct 4th, which does not make sense.

Okay, this makes sense.

> Now that I know what to look for, I'll have a much closer look next time
> this happens, with the understanding that it would be a while if I've
> successfully fixed the reason why my laptop was crashing too often.

Sounds good.

> But you said you've also seen issues with google-chrome profile and btrfs.
> What did you experience?

I never debugged it, but I had to blow away the profile a couple of times. Then
there's this weird one which looks like a Btrfs bug:

┌[osandov@vader ~/.config]
└$ ls -al google-chrome-busted/**
ls: cannot access 'google-chrome-busted/Local State': No such file or directory
google-chrome-busted/Default:
ls: cannot access 'google-chrome-busted/Default/Preferences': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'google-chrome-busted/Default/.com.google.Chrome.VfAUNx': No such file or directory
total 0
drwx------ 1 osandov users 12 Feb  7 16:50 .
drwx------ 1 osandov users 14 Feb  7 16:50 ..
-????????? ? ?       ?      ?            ? .com.google.Chrome.VfAUNx
-????????? ? ?       ?      ?            ? Preferences