does btrfs finally have fsck?

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Wed May 25 00:36:53 UTC 2011


On 05/24/2011 05:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 08:23 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> Does btrfs finally have a fully functional fsck? Or is btrfs install not
>> recommended for the faint of heart?
>>
>> Last time I tried btrfs (~year ago), FS got corrupted after a kernel
>> oops. Luckily it was only a test machine.
>>
>>
>  From the release announcement.....
>
>   Btrfs filesystem --  Btrfs, the next generation filesystem is being
> developed with upstream participation of Red Hat developers, Oracle
> and many others. Btrfs is now available as a menu item in the
> installer (only for non-live images. live images support just Ext4)
> and does not require passing a special option to the installer as in
> the previous releases.  Btrfs availability has moved up a notch as a
> incremental step towards the goal of Btrfs as the default filesystem
> in the next release of Fedora.  The btrfsck program for performing
> filesystem checks is under active development upstream with
> participation from Fedora but the one included in this release is
> still limited and hence users are highly recommended to maintain
> backups when using this filesystem (backups are a good idea anyway!).
> Thanks to Josef Bacik, Red Hat Btrfs developer, for his upstream
> participation and integration of this feature in Fedora including a
> yum plugin (yum-plugin-fs-snapshot) that enables users to rollback
> updates if necessary, taking advantage of Btrfs snapshots.

Aaah, okay. So that's a "no"


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