[Btrfs-devel] btrfs on /

[Christian Hesse]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Yan Zheng wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I think that is what I've seen. I will wait for an updated live CD 
and "upgrade" my root fs.
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Regards,
Chris