Hi All,

For clarity for the masses, what are the "multiple serious data-loss bugs" as mentioned in the btrfs wiki? The bullet points on this page: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56 don't enumerate the bugs.  Not even in a high level.  If anything what can be closest to a bug or issue or "resilience use-case missing" would be the first point on that page.

"Parity may be inconsistent after a crash (the "write hole"). The problem born when after "an unclean shutdown" a disk failure happens. But these are *two* distinct failures. These together break the BTRFS raid5 redundancy. If you run a scrub process after "an unclean shutdown" (with no disk failure in between) those data which match their checksum can still be read out while the mismatched data are lost forever."

So in a nutshell; "What are the multiple serious data-loss bugs?" If there aren't any, perhaps updating the wiki should be considered for something less the "dramatic" .



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