From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:58096 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbbHYO7o (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:59:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:59:22 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN To: Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Negr=E3o?= Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Btrfs tragedy: lack of space for metadata leads to loss of fs. Message-ID: <20150825145922.GE20179@merlins.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 01:44:12PM +0000, Miguel Negrão wrote: > Hi list, > > This weekend had my first btrfs horror story. > > system: 3.13.0-49-lowlatency, btrfs-progs v4.1.2 Sorry to say, but that's a very old kernels with many btrfs bugs, some did lead to corruption. > A disclaimer: I know 3.13 is very out of date, but I the requirement of > keeping kernel up to date clashes with my requirement of keeping a stable > system. At the moment I can't disturb my system as I'm doing important work, Unfortunately you have conflicting goals. > upgrading kernel requires upgrading ubuntu, which will upgrade a lot of > packages and might lead to problems which I don't have time to fix. One You're doing it wrong :) Upgrade/compile your own kernel without upgrading the OS. > block group 32...... flags 36'). This is a OCZ vertex 3, a quite fast SSD. I've had 5 (yes 5, I replaced my drive 4 times) OCZ Vertex 4 drives, and they all gave me corruption with btrfs on unclean power down. The last one didn't work any better, I just gave up and went to Samsung EVO 840 and those have been fine. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901