Dear all,
I am a big fan of btrfs, and I am using it since 2013 - in the meantime
on at least four different computers. During this time, I suffered at
least four bad btrfs-failures leading to unmountable, unreadable and
unrecoverable file system. Since in three of the cases I did not manage
to recover even a single file, I am beginning to lose my confidence in
btrfs: for 35-years working with different computers no other file
system was so bad at recovering files!
Considering the importance of btrfs and keeping in mind the number of
similar failures, described in countless forums on the net, I have got
an idea: to donate my last two damaged filesystems for investigation
purposes and thus hopefully contribute to the improvement of btrfs. One
condition: any recovered personal data (mostly pictures and audio files)
should remain undisclosed and be deleted.
Should anybody be interested in this - feel free to contact me
personally (I am not reading the list regularly!), otherwise I am going
to reformat and reuse both systems in two weeks from today.
Some more info:
- The smaller system is 83.6GB, I could either send you an image of
this system on an unneeded hard drive or put it into a dedicated
computer and give you root rights and ssh-access to it (the network lin
is 100Mb down, 50Mb up, so it should be acceptable).
- The used space on the other file system is about 3 TB (4 TB
capacity) and it is distributed among 5 drives, so I can only offer
remote access to this, but I will need time to organize it.
If you need additional information - please ask, but keep in mind that I
have almost no "free time" and the answer could need a day or two.
Kind regards,
Nik.
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