On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:00:46AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> I don't know who else uses google-chrome here, but for me, for as long as
> I've used btrfs (3+ years now), I've had no end of troubles recovering from
> a linux crash, and google-chrome has had problems recovering my tabs and
> usually cmoplains about plenty of problems, some are corruption looking.

I've also had issues with chrome and Btrfs, not just you.

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> Does anyone know if it's leveldb relying on non POSIX semantics that just
> happen to work out on ext4, or if btrfs COW and atomicity doesn't quite
> handle multi file updates in a way that is expected by a spec, or by
> application developers?

A quick google search turned this up: 
https://github.com/google/leveldb/issues/195.
Unless anything has changed since that issue was last updated, it does
sound like LevelDB is making some unsafe assumptions. I'll take a look.
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