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BTRFS fsck ?

DISCUSSION Hervé CHIBOIS 5 participants 5 messages Nov 22, 2011 – Dec 29, 2011 Btrfs file system

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Hello Team

for personnal use, I'm interested in cosolidating all my ext4 sub-filesystems into a single one using BTRFS.

I can"t afford loosing my data... and my question is : is there a release date for the fsck tool for btrfs ?

Thanx in advance

Herve (from France)

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Quoted 7 lines · On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:41:20 +0100 Hervé CHIBOIS <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Team

for personnal use, I'm interested in cosolidating all my ext4 sub-filesystems into a single one using BTRFS.

I can"t afford loosing my data... and my question is : is there a release date for the fsck tool for btrfs ?

The ONLY guard against losing data is having an up-to-date backup, not fsck.

You are absolutely crazy if you store the data you can't afford to lose, without backups, just relying on what currently, ext4 fsck?

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Quoted 9 lines · On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:41:20PM +0100, Herv=E9 CHIBOIS wrote:

Hello Team
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for personnal use, I'm interested in cosolidating all my ext4 sub-filesystems into a single one using BTRFS.
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I can"t afford loosing my data... and my question is : is there a release date for the fsck tool for btrfs ?
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Thanx in advance

I've set myself up for disappointment with release dates in the past.

We've found put some really important corruption fixes into the 3.2 merge window, and the current for-linus branch of the btrfs kernel repo has a fix for write cache flushing bugs that are probably responsible for most of the corruptions people have seen with power failures.

With this settled down, I'm back on fsck full time.

-chris

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Hi Chris,

Any updates on the results of another month of full time work on btrfsck?

Thanks,

Erik.

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I've set myself up for disappointment with release dates in the past.

We've found put some really important corruption fixes into the 3.2 merge window, and the current for-linus branch of the btrfs kernel repo has a fix for write cache flushing bugs that are probably responsible for most of the corruptions people have seen with power failures.

With this settled down, I'm back on fsck full time.

-chris

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Quoted 2 lines · On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:55:35 +0100 Erik Logtenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

Any updates on the results of another month of full time work on btrfsck?

I also wonder about it...During the summer I migrated from FreeBSD/ZFS back to Linux and had a feeling, based on info I got (IRC, wiki etc.) that fsck is around the corner, but now I see it's good that we opted for ext4...

Sincerely,
Gour

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