Can corruption happen by powering off the computer (not properly shutting it down) during balance or scrub of a btrfs volume?
Can corruption happen by powering off the computer (not properly shutting it down) during balance or scrub of a btrfs volume?
Edit: including corruption of superblocks
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Storage devices can fail at any time for any reason. Always have a backup.
Fwiw, I think BTRFS is better than ext4 and friends at actually detecting whether a block is corrupted or not.
14 0 Reply"Better" in the sense that it actually has the ability to check for corruption at all, as all metadata and data are checksummed.
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