Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se writes:
Can btrfs deal reasonably gracefully with sudden shutdowns? (I'm
mainly thinking of power outages which lead to logical structure
damage but not physical media damage.)
Really rather well! We've had a sequence of power-cuts around here and
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:33:08PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote:
Can btrfs deal reasonably gracefully with sudden shutdowns? (I'm
mainly thinking of power outages which lead to logical structure
damage but not physical media damage.)
In theory (i.e. by the design of the FS), you should be
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:33:08PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote:
Can btrfs deal reasonably gracefully with sudden shutdowns? (I'm
mainly thinking of power outages which lead to logical structure
damage but not physical media damage.)
AFAIK, yes, because btrfs is naturally COW supported,
On 6 Nov 2012 12:48 +, from h...@carfax.org.uk (Hugo Mills):
There are also some caveats: while the FS should always be
consistent, the latest transaction write may not have been completed,
so you could potentially lose up to 30 seconds of writes to the FS
from immediately before the
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:47:02PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 6 Nov 2012 12:48 +, from h...@carfax.org.uk (Hugo Mills):
There are also some caveats: while the FS should always be
consistent, the latest transaction write may not have been completed,
so you could potentially
