On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 07:39:25PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:26:15PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > TLP allows SATA power management: SATA_LINKPWR_ON_BAT=max_performance > > > > There are some old posts that talk about corruption if you enable this > > with btrfs: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TLP#Btrfs > > says not to enable it > > > > https://forum.manjaro.org/t/btrfs-corruption-with-tlp/25158 > > > > https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/128 > > says it may not be safe > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/5tm5uh/btrfs_and_tlp/ > > also talks about corruption > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4f5xvh/saving_power_is_the_btrfs_dataloss_warning_still/ > > say it's probably ok > > > > My feeling is that it's probably ok nowadays with a 5.6+ kernel. > > > > Would anyone disagree? > > I don't and reading the posts, it's a hardware problem leading to > filesystem corruption. It's affecting all filesystem but the detection > capabilities differ, so it stuck with btrfs. > > At least the Arch wiki note can be removed, I don't see any value > keeping it there, the fixes to ATA subsystem have been merged to 4.15. Sorry, it looks like I never replied to you. Thanks for confirming my guess. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08
