From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Felix Blanke <felixblanke@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: btrfs-convert fails
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:49:43 +0100
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Hi Helmut,

don't use btrfs for important files if you got no backup yet. It's
quite stable and a lot of ppl don't have problem with it, but there are
some cases where it could be very ugly, like a powerloss while writing
etc.


Regards,
=46elix

Am 01 Nov 2010 09:02:00 +0100
schrieb "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>:

> Hallo, Yan,
>=20
> Du meintest am 01.11.10:
>=20
> >> I've tried to convert a 12 GByte ext2 partition (nearly full, 280
> >> MByte free) with btrfs-convert.
> >>
> >> After about 15 minutes (700-MHz-CPU) the system tells
> >>
> >> =A0...
> >> =A0creating ext2fs image file
> >> =A0cleaning up system chunk
> >> =A0btrfs-convert: extent-tree.c:2529: btrfs_reserve_extent: Assert=
ion
> >> =A0 =A0 `!(ret)' failed
> >> =A0Abgebrochen
>=20
> > Try btrfs-convert -r /dev/xxx, hopefully it will recover your ext2.
>=20
> Restoring is (now) no problem, I'm still testing. But in some days
> (or weeks) I want to convert a partition with 1,5 TByte (which has
> no backup) ...
>=20
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
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