From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: some feedbacks seen on btrfs
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:04:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADCGFBV-5OMDCD-EVtsUsKnSBOifF2+sjYHHmgR0WKOoLLsQXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
First off, thanks for an awesome file system, it is working well for
my purposes of compressing a filesystem on a small VPS. Woot!
I thought I'd call out a few things (in the hopes of spurring
improvements) I'd seen about btrfs (in case they weren't common
knowledge...):
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/1231213/btrfs-is-getting-there-but-not-quite-ready-for-production
links to
http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/
which mentions problems when they start to "fill up" a btrfs filesystem.
Also, in the slashdot comments, saw this:
"...nice features, speed ok, but i happened to unplug by mistake the
power supply, without a battery. bad crash... I tried using btrfsck,
and other debug tools, even in the "dangerdon'teveruse" git branch,
they just segfaulted. at the end my filesystem was unrecoverable, I
used btrfs-restore, only to find out that 90% of my files had been
truncated to 0... even files i didn't use for months....now, maybe it
was the compress=lzo option, or maybe I played a little too much with
the repair tools (possible)...
btrfs is supposed to save a consistent state every 30 seconds, so I
don't understand how I messed up that bad.... maybe the superblock was
gone and the btrfsck --repair borked everything, I don't know....
luckily for me: backups :)"
FWIW.
Thanks again!
-roger-
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