Re: 4.13.12: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/ctree.h:1802!

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:41:48AM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:12:56 -0800
> Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:32:33PM +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> > > Don't pop the champagne just yet, I just read that apprently 4.14 broke
> > > bcache for some people [1]. Not sure how much that affects you, but it might
> > > well make things worse. Yeah, I know, wonderful.
> > 
> > Oh my, that's actually pretty terrible.
> > I've just reverted both my machines to 3.13, the last thing I need is more
> > btrfs corruption.
> 
> Why so far back though, the latest 4.4 and 4.9 are both good series and run
> without issues for me since a long time. Or perhaps you meant 4.13 :)
 
Typo indeed, I meant 4.13.

> I suggest that you try lvmcache instead. It's much more flexible than bcache,
> does pretty much the same job, and has much less of the "hacky" feel to it.

I can read up on it, it's going to be a big pain to convert from one to
the other, but I can look at it for new filesystems.

Thanks,
Marc
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