On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 01:44:12PM +0000, Miguel Negrão wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> This weekend had my first btrfs horror story.
>
> system: 3.13.0-49-lowlatency, btrfs-progs v4.1.2
Sorry to say, but that's a very old kernels with many btrfs bugs, some
did lead to corruption.
> A disclaimer: I know 3.13 is very out of date, but I the requirement of
> keeping kernel up to date clashes with my requirement of keeping a stable
> system. At the moment I can't disturb my system as I'm doing important work,
Unfortunately you have conflicting goals.
> upgrading kernel requires upgrading ubuntu, which will upgrade a lot of
> packages and might lead to problems which I don't have time to fix. One
You're doing it wrong :)
Upgrade/compile your own kernel without upgrading the OS.
> block group 32...... flags 36'). This is a OCZ vertex 3, a quite fast SSD.
I've had 5 (yes 5, I replaced my drive 4 times) OCZ Vertex 4 drives, and
they all gave me corruption with btrfs on unclean power down. The last
one didn't work any better, I just gave up and went to Samsung EVO 840
and those have been fine.
Marc
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