On 05.01.2020 14:40 Christian Wimmer wrote: >> On 5. Jan 2020, at 01:03, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 10:07 AM Christian Wimmer >> <telefonchris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I run again in a problem with my btrfs files system. >>> I start wondering if this filesystem type is right for my needs. >>> Could you please help me in recovering my 12TB partition? >> If you're having recurring problems, there's a decent chance it's >> hardware related and not Btrfs, because Btrfs is pretty stable on >> stable hardware. Btrfs is actually fussier than other file systems >> because everything is checksummed. >> > I think I can exclude hardware problems. Everything is brand new and well tested. > The biggest chance for being the source of errors is the Parallels Virtual machine where Linux (Suse 15.1) is running in. > In this Virtual Machine I specify a “growing hard disc" that is actually a file on my 32 TB Promise Pegasus Storage. > I just can not understand why it runs fine for almost 1 month (and actually more for other growing hard discs of smaller size) and then shows this behaviour. > Does the host machine use ECC-RAM? That Promise Pegasus Storage looks like a simple harware RAID without integrity protection (like a btrfs RAID1/RAID6 or something like ceph would give you). Both of those can cause the errors you posted.
