[Btrfs-devel] btrfs on /

[Yan Zheng]

2008/2/6, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de>:
> 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.

Are the errors found by btrfsck something like:
---
ref mismatch on [xxx xxx]
extent item xxx, found xxx
backpointer mismatch on [xxx, xxx]

If they are,  I think the bug have been fixed in btrfs v0.12.

Regards
YZ