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From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: "Morten P.D. Stevens" <mstevens@imt-systems.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	"linux-btrfs\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:45:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iq3a4l46.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7222A6B8ACA37D4AA1AC37810C43E8A80F5FC5BC@mail.corp.imt-systems.com> (Morten P. D. Stevens's message of "Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:17:54 +0200")

Hi,

   > the other big question is:
   > 
   > Is btrfs with 2.6.36 really rockstable and ready to use in
   > productive environments?

No, certainly not until there's a working fsck tool -- at the moment
it's rather easy to kill a btrfs by just losing power.

I just added a paragraph to the main page of the wiki about this,
since we've had a few people on IRC express surprise that their
filesystem aren't fixable after power loss.  Feel free to reword:

   Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors.
   While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible
   to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or
   loses power.  This will be fixed when the fsck tool is ready.

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16  8:46 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable Ameya Palande
2010-08-16 12:16 ` Chris Mason
2010-08-16 14:17   ` Morten P.D. Stevens
2010-08-16 15:45     ` Chris Ball [this message]
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTin-q4N9g3=ymsiJy051xts3b2vioNdqku6DMEzQ@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-16 16:11         ` Fwd: " Evert Vorster
2010-08-16 16:32           ` Chris Ball
2010-08-16 22:25       ` Diego Calleja
2010-08-26 22:45         ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2010-08-26 23:17           ` Diego Calleja
2010-08-17 11:57       ` Carlos R. Mafra
2010-08-17 16:25       ` Rodrigo E. De León Plicet
2010-08-25 16:57     ` Johannes Hirte
2010-08-26  8:58       ` Xavier Nicollet
2010-08-26 22:48         ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2010-08-17  0:14 ` Chris Samuel

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