The lack of any information on when btrfsck might be ready is a real headache to those deciding what to do with a corrupted file system.
I am currently sitting on a btrfs array of 10 disks that has been reporting "parent transid verify failed" since last November. While the data on the drive is by no means irreplaceable, it would take a fair amount of effort. At the time I was told that a btrfsck would almost certainly be released by the end of the year. In January, it was "finally almost ready", and toward the end of May it was going to be released in "a couple of days (hopefully)". Had I known back in November 9 months would go by with no such tool, I would have certainly wiped the array and started over, as it was certainly not worth the wait. So here I am, several assurances of imminent release later, still wondering whether it would be better to wait or cut my losses. I understand that everyone is working hard, and I deeply appreciate the effort being put into this filesystem. I'm not looking for an exact date, just a rough order of magnitude on which to base decisions. Thank you very much. --Erik Jensen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
