Re: Frequent btrfs corruption on a USB flash drive

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On 2016-07-07 20:25, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Francesco Turco <fturco@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Perhaps I
>> should try to rule out an hardware problem by filling my USB flash drive
>> with a large random file and then checking if its SHA-1 checksum
>> corresponds to the original copy on the hard disk. But first I probably
>> should backup the current Btrfs filesystem with the dd command. Can I
>> proceed?
> 
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas

Thank you for the link, I didn't know that using LVM snapshots or
mounting dd copies can create problems! That could explain the reason
for some of the problems I had in the past.

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