On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:17:08AM +0100, George Eleftheriou wrote: > Without having further knowledge on that matter, I tend to believe > (but I hope I'm wrong) that BTRFS is as vulnerable as ZFS to memory > errors. Since I upgraded recently, it's a bit too late for purchasing > ECC-capable infrastructure (change of CPU + motherboard + RAM) so I > just chose to ignore this risk by performing a memtest86 right before > every scrub (and having my regular backups ready). Also, I haven't seen it mentioned in the thread, scrub can also run in read-only mode: $ btrfs scrub start -r /mnt so you can do a safe RO pass before a RW one and examine the reported problems before they get fixed automatically. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
