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From: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: BTRFS and power loss ~= corruption?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:30:53 +0200
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On 26.08.2011 09:48, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
>> On 26.08.2011 01:01, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> This article describes evaluating ext3, reiserfs and jfs using fault
> injection using a custom Linux block device driver.
> "Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems"
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/sfa-dsn05.pdf
> --

While the article is interesting, it describes a quite different
failure mode. I/O-error handling is not very sophisticated in
btrfs yet. The tests Gregory were taking about are on completely
well-behaving hardware. Failure injection would be the second step.