On 05/06/2011 05:13 AM, Paul Schroeder wrote:
The btrfs wiki Main Page warns that "it is currently possible to corrupt
a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks
that don't handle flush requests correctly."
How do you know if this applies to your drives? Is there a way to test it,
or a model list, or are newer SATA drives (magnetic, not SSDs) always ok?
Does it depend on the controller? (I have a SiI 3114, latest BIOS.)
I would also be using btrfs on top of dm-crypt (with the latest release
kernel). Some kernel versions ago, the message that write barriers aren't
supported disappeared; can I assume the device mapper / dm-crypt is not a
problem with regards to flushing?
Yeah if you don't see those messages you can be fairly certain you are
ok. Thanks,
Josef
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