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londons_explore on June 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scripts for Btrfs Maintenance

I think most of the bugs are in the drives themselves - doing things like claiming data is flushed when it is not.

However, btrfs is a very fragile filesystem and any inconsistencies caused by the drive bugs tend to lead to it breaking and refusing to mount, whereas on other filesystems you'll just get a warning in dmesg.

It doesn't help that btrfs developers refuse to work around drive bugs.

phire on June 10, 2023 [–]

> It doesn't help that btrfs developers refuse to work around drive bugs.

The entire selling point of the filesystem is that it's resilient to data corruption. Drive bugs are just another class of data corruption.

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