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0 pointsnix234y ago0 comments

Ah, so it's a special btrfs feature, as root you can kill your filesystem by simply writing a file to it. I wonder what function that serves.

But hey how about a quota behind the scenes?....you know like ZFS? AFS? ReFS?...you know so the filesystem tells the user "sorry cant take anymore" before it really cant take anymore? That would be some crazy enterprise level stuff....

You know, a Filesystem that immediately stops writing and instead cares more about the data that's already on the platter?

BTW: It was a DC-Harddisk

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Fnoord4y ago

This can happen on any filesystem under the circumstances of it becoming full as root. You are misinformed if you believe such isn't the case.

"Can't boot" is also vague. I've had data loss with XFS in 2002 or so (didn't have backups), couldn't mount filesystem anymore. Thanks to help on IRC from devs I got almost all data back. I've been able to get recover data from a dying Deathstar, too. And then there's the RAID5 write hole (can be mitigated), and RAID5 issues on btrfs (which are well known). For all we know you were using RAID5 shrug. Anyway, did you file a bug report, did you contact the devs?

nix23OP4y ago

> This can happen on any filesystem under the circumstances of it becoming full as root. You are misinformed if you believe such isn't the case.

No true with ZFS and XFS, you are trying to defend a ill designed filesystem....in typical linux *fashion ;)

It's S#it but at least we "invented" it.

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