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From: "Zoltán Ivánfi" <zoltan1980@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Is it safe to use btrfs on top of different types of devices?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 21:00:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGtRCvfkDnUBxqWNgEOXz+Gam0dPubatROQgqxE2D_uCAZhihQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Dear Btrfs Experts,

A few years ago I tried to use a RAID1 mdadm array of a SATA and a USB
disk, which lead to strange error messages and data corruption. I did
some searching back then and found out that using hot-pluggable
devices with mdadm is a paved road to data corruption. Reading through
that old bug again I see that it was autoclosed due to old age but
still hasn't been addressed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/320638

I would like to ask whether btrfs may also be prone to data corruption
issues in this scenario (due to the same underlying issue as the one
described in the bug above for mdadm), or is btrfs unaffected by the
underlying issue and is safe to use with a mix of regular and
hot-pluggable devices as well?

Thanks,

Zoltan

             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-14 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-14 19:00 Zoltán Ivánfi [this message]
2017-10-15  0:19 ` Is it safe to use btrfs on top of different types of devices? Peter Grandi
2017-10-15  3:42 ` Duncan
2017-10-15  8:30 ` Zoltán Ivánfi
2017-10-15 12:05   ` Duncan
2017-10-16 11:53   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-16 16:57     ` Zoltan
2017-10-16 17:27       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-17  1:14         ` Adam Borowski
2017-10-17 11:26           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-17 11:42             ` Zoltan
2017-10-17 12:40               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-17 17:06                 ` Adam Borowski
2017-10-17 19:19                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-17 20:21                     ` Adam Borowski
2017-10-17 21:56                       ` Zoltán Ivánfi
2017-10-18  4:44                         ` Duncan
2017-10-18 14:07                         ` Peter Grandi
2017-10-18 11:30                       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-18 11:59                         ` Adam Borowski
2017-10-18 14:30                           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-18  4:50                     ` Duncan
2017-10-18 13:53               ` Peter Grandi
2017-10-18 14:30                 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-19 11:01                   ` Peter Grandi
2017-10-19 12:32                     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-19 18:39                       ` Peter Grandi
2017-10-20 11:53                         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-19 13:48                     ` Zoltan
2017-10-19 14:27                       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-19 14:42                         ` Zoltan
2017-10-19 15:07                           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-19 18:00                         ` Peter Grandi
2017-10-19 17:56                       ` Peter Grandi
2017-10-19 18:59                         ` Peter Grandi

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