[Btrfs-devel] btrfs on /

Chris Mason chris.mason at oracle.com
Wed Feb 6 07:14:47 PST 2008


On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> now that I have a live CD with btrfs support I decided to give btrfs on
> root partition a try. I have good backups. ;) Here is what I have to tell
> so far:
>
> * linking btrfsck to fsck.btrfs is a bad idea, it just crashes with signal
> 11. My workaround is the following script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ARGS=$@
> btrfsck ${ARGS##* }
>
> * After a suspend cycle and some hours of work I got curious behaviour,
> e.g. ld crashed while compiling the kernel. btrfsck found a lot of errors
> which I did not save - stupid me. After that I did not suspend and had no
> further corruption problems.

Were these suspend problems before you applied Yan's patch for the free/thaw 
methods?

-chris



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