On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:10 PM Christoph Anton Mitterer
<cales...@scientia.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 01:22 +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
> > The following one liner fixes it:
> > https://friendpaste.com/22t4OdktHQTl0aMGxcWLj3
>
> Great to see that fixed... is there any advise that can be given for
> users/admins?

Upgrade to a kernel with the patch (none yet) or build it from source?
Not sure what kind of advice you are looking for.

>
>
> Like whether and how any occurred corruptions can be detected (right
> now, people may still have backups)?
>
>
> Or under which exact circumstances did the corruption happen? And under
> which was one safe?
> E.g. only on specific compression algos (I've been using -o compress
> (which should be zlib) for quite a while but never found any
> compression),... or only when specific file operations were done (I did
> e.g. cp with refcopy, but I think none of the standard tools does hole-
> punching)?

As I said in the previous reply, and in the patch's changelog [1], the
corruption happens at read time.
That means nothing stored on disk is corrupted. It's not the end of the world.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20190214151720.23563-1-fdman...@kernel.org/

>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>


-- 
Filipe David Manana,

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