From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from 206-248-167-68.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.167.68]:40693 "EHLO mail.isoar.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752028AbcGGVsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2016 17:48:46 -0400 Message-ID: <577EC57C.8060607@isoar.ca> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:11:24 -0400 From: "Andrew E. Mileski" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francesco Turco , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Frequent btrfs corruption on a USB flash drive References: <0120508a-b9e7-b9e7-4f27-79f982ee07fe@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <0120508a-b9e7-b9e7-4f27-79f982ee07fe@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2016-07-07 09:49, Francesco Turco wrote: > I have a USB flash drive with an encrypted Btrfs filesystem where I > store daily backups. My problem is that this btrfs filesystem gets > corrupted very often, after a few days of usage. Usually I just reformat > it and move along, but this time I'd like to understand the root cause > of the problem and fix it. How large is this USB flash device? I've had issues with btrfs and small devices, where a 1 GB data chunk is relatively large. ~~ Andrew E. Mileski