Did you report it to btrfs list? This is really weird, on other hand,
weird things happens even on gluster quite often on labs. I never had
any troubles with btrfs so far, except for some weird error messages
that were already fixed in latest version.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Mark Bergsma <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Also, don't be confused by this fs being flagged as beta. Most of its 
>> developers consider it stable enough for production and generally recommend 
>> to use it for any purpose.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I suggest to switch to BTRFS filesystem on all /dev/vdb devices on all 
>> boxes. I will start this experiment on bots-N (experimental) boxes for now. 
>> And if there would be no troubles I would start switching it on all 
>> production boxes as well.
>>
>> BTRFS comes with tons of incredible features that none of existing linux 
>> filesystems can do. And I would really like to perform maintenance on these 
>> boxes without having to unmount its filesystem everytime when I need to 
>> change it (BTRFS support basically everything you need to unmount regular FS 
>> for ONLINE without any need to be unmounted, including defragmentation, 
>> resizing, mirroring (on level of file, directory or subvolume), making 
>> snaphots of files or directories and many more)
>
> Yeah well, do make sure you have backups. I've been using btrfs for a couple 
> years now on several systems, and while it mostly works well and is very 
> cool, it has eaten my data a few times. Even recent versions. :)
>
> What's funny is that the one box where I did expect trouble, a Wikimedia 
> server used in production with a btrfs file system spanning 48 separate hard 
> drives, worked great under load for 2 years.
>
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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