Comment on Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device poolComments−jamesnorden5moPeople swear btrfs is "safe" now, but I've personally been bitten by data corruption more than once, so I stay away from it now.−Avamander5moI installed Fedora on BTRFS using their installer and I lost that partition entirely. Couldn't wrestle it back to life to even copy stuff off it.I think what happened was that the machine ran out of battery in suspend, but an unclean shutdown shouldn't cause such a deep corruption.
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People swear btrfs is "safe" now, but I've personally been bitten by data corruption more than once, so I stay away from it now.
I installed Fedora on BTRFS using their installer and I lost that partition entirely. Couldn't wrestle it back to life to even copy stuff off it.
I think what happened was that the machine ran out of battery in suspend, but an unclean shutdown shouldn't cause such a deep corruption.