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Well that's the end of btrfs for me.

Barely a month in it's shat itself and taken /home with it.

Hopefully it recovers to external drive and I can just copy back on to something stable like ext4

I've lived this long without metadata checksum and snapshot.

@falken when my btrfs volume died it turned out to be due to faulty RAM. It was because of all the extra checks with btrfs that the problem showed up in the fs first as checksums stopped matching.

@fosstian would be shocked if brand new @frameworkcomputer with their own RAM was bad. Memtest86 at install time was clear

@falken in any case the better filesystem is coming soon in 6.7..!!

@falken bcachefs! its been a while ppl have been waiting for it

@wyndon @falken

It will be interesting what turns up when bcachefs becomes more widely adopted. It’s very ambitious with its goals. Can’t wait to see how close it is to reaching them.

@ericjmorey @wyndon after spending an afternoon the day before I go on holiday restoring a backup, I'd leave it a few years before trying...

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