
30 Jun
2014
30 Jun
'14
12:28 p.m.
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:12:45 pm Russell Coker wrote:
BTRFS in a default configuration will use "dup" for metadata. So a bad metadatablock can be corrected. But a bad data block causes data loss - at least you know you have data loss (as opposed to silent data corruption on older filesystems).
What does data loss look like? Does the whole file become unavailable or are there just error codes delivered along with the data? -- Anthony Shipman Mamas don't let your babies als@iinet.net.au grow up to be outsourced.