An update on bcachefs [LWN.net]

An update on bcachefs

Posted May 24, 2018 10:30 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: An update on bcachefs by simcop2387
Parent article: An update on bcachefs

"Corner cases" my right foot. The reason for the bad taste is that btrfs would completely eat itself even when using supposedly stable/fully-supported configurations on stable hardware.

I've had two [might-as-well-be-]total filesystem losses with btrfs, both after clean shutdown/reboot cycles on lightly-loaded, battery-backed hardware that hasn't so much as hiccupped before or since.

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An update on bcachefs

Posted May 25, 2018 15:54 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

There are two major times my personal Linux boxes ate my data...

1st time was when my cat yanked out a PCI card that wasn't screwed in. Corrupted xfs metadata, had to sort through tens of thousands of files in the recovery bin.

2nd time was while using btrfs.

There was also a couple times while using btrfs on external storage device I expanded it wedged itself into a corner. Ran out of inodes or something like that. It was a long time ago. Didn't lose data, but the file system was effectively rendered worthless and needed to be rebuilt.

Now these things are all partially my fault, but I have used Linux on garbage-level (sometimes literally) hardware for years and it's been proven to be tough.

I am looking forward to bcachefs getting support from various distro installers.