On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:11 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 02:01:56AM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> > If I don't have ECC does that mean I shouldn't use BTRFS ?
>
> The chance of data corruption due to memory errors is rare, but it does
> happen. If it happened and you were using ext4, the result wouldn't be that
> everything is fine, it's that you'd have corrupted data -- hopefully not
> important, but... you won't know.
>
> Now, I don't think btrfs's current state of "now your system won't boot and
> you need to be an expert to figure out what's going on" is ideal either, but
> it's a rare situation and recovery tools will improve.
>

With the amount of time that Chris and everyone else put into this, I
just hope this bug is fixed for good.