From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: introduce rescue=all
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:20:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200909072002.GD18399@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b862077c-0903-b4f0-ccc9-ee1c815534bc@gmx.com>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 07:10:49AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>
>
> On 2020/9/8 下午11:43, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > One of the things that came up consistently in talking with Fedora about
> > switching to btrfs as default is that btrfs is particularly vulnerable
> > to metadata corruption. If any of the core global roots are corrupted,
> > the fs is unmountable and fsck can't usually do anything for you without
> > some special options.
> >
> > What we really want is a simple mount option we can tell all users to
> > try if things are really wrong that are going to give them the highest
> > chance of allowing them to mount their file system and copy off their
> > data in the most direct way possible.
>
> Then "all" doesn't look correct for such usage.
> I'd prefer "salvage" then.
Let's focus on the functionality for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-09 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-08 15:43 [PATCH] btrfs: introduce rescue=all Josef Bacik
2020-09-08 23:10 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-09-09 7:20 ` David Sterba [this message]
2020-09-09 7:25 ` Qu Wenruo
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