On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:20:22 George Mitchell wrote: > I can easily imagine btrfs > taking a system down due to memory error, but not btrfs causing data > corruption due to a memory error.
I had a system which had apparently worked OK on Ext4 but had some memory errors. After twice having a serious BTRFS corruption (needed backup-format- restore) I ran memtest and found that a DIMM was broken. In that sort of situation it seems that BTRFS is likely to be more fragile due to the more complex data structures and due to the fact that it's a newer filesystem with less corner cases handled. That said, it's working well for me on a few systems without ECC RAM. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
