Re: Major design flaw with BTRFS Raid, temporary device drop will corrupt nodatacow files

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And an open question I have about scrub is weather it only ever is
> checking csums, meaning nodatacow files are never scrubbed, or if the
> copies are at least compared to each other?

Scrub never looks at nodatacow files.  It does not compare the copies
to each other.

Qu submitted a patch to make check compare the copies:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10434509/

This hasn't been added to btrfs-progs git yet.

IMO, I think the offline check should look at nodatacow copies like
this, but I still think this also needs to be added to scrub.  In the
patch thread, I discuss my reasons why.  In brief: online scanning;
this goes along with user's expectation of scrub ensuring mirrored
data integrity; and recommendations to setup scrub on periodic basis
to me means it's the place to put it.
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