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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:07:08
Message-Id: 20130719230656.GV3387@server
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration by William Kenworthy
1 On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 06:29:21AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
2 >
3 > One "odd" condition I ran into twice with the ssd + btrfs were
4 > filesystems about half full but cant write to because the filesystem was
5 > full!
6 >
7 > After messy crashes it seemed like btrfs would "lose" some
8 > files/sectors/whatever and the only way I could recover was an erase
9 > cycle (IBM 520 series). It wasnt sub-volumes or other wrinkles as far
10 > as I could see, just that btrfs/trim and the underlying disk didn't
11 > agree and I couldn't figure out why ...
12 >
13 > For "my" use case, having good backups (regularly tested by actually
14 > needing to use them :) have been an integral part of my ssd
15 > "experiences" :) On the other side, the apple laptop with ssd + btrfs
16 > on root has been problem free.
17 >
18 > BillK
19
20 Everyone I know who uses BTRFS tells me they MUST keep backups, because of
21 such as that. It seems it's just not yet ready for prime time.
22
23 I used EXT4 in the past, and now XFS, and never had any data loss.
24
25 Just my 2c and experience.
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