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" .
- RAID56 Warning on "multiple serious data-loss bug... DanglingPointer
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