Re: Errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation

[Nicolas Gnyra <nicolas.gnyra@gmail.com>]

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>>>> I'm currently running btrfs-progs v6.12 but the balance was originally
>>>> run on v5.10.1. Is there any way to recover from this or should I just
>>>> nuke the filesystem and restart from scratch? There's nothing super
>>>> important on there, it's just going to be annoying to restore from a
>>>> backup, and I thought it'd be interesting to try to figure out what
>>>> happened here.
>>>
>>> Recommended to run a full memtest before doing anything, just to verify
>>> if it's really a hardware bitflip.
>>
>> I started Memtest86+ ~3.5 hours ago (it's on the 7th pass) based on a
>> recommendation when I asked in the IRC channel; no errors yet, but I'll
>> let it run overnight at least and let you know if it fails.
> 
> Just in case, have you tried memtester?
> 
> There used to be a AMD SFH driver bug that causes random memory corruption.
> 
> Tools like memtest86+ are doing its own EFI payload so that it will
> detect problems caused by kernel drivers.
> 
> Anyway, 7 passes already look good enough to me.
> 
> Then the cause will be much harder to pin down.

Oh alright! I haven't tried memtester - I'll give it a shot and get back 
to you. Thanks again!