Comment Comment by ge0rg btrfs has made some headlines in the past about its severely broken checksum computation in RAID modes, which rules them out for production use, i.e. https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-RAID-5...The wrong parity and unrecoverable errors has been confirmed by multiple parties. The Btrfs RAID 5/6 code has been called as much as fatally flawedIt would be interesting to know if this has been addressed already.The big fat red warning on btrfs' own wiki page is not inspiring trust either: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56For data, it should be safe as long as a scrub is run immediately after any unclean shutdown parent ge0rg 6 years ago
The wrong parity and unrecoverable errors has been confirmed by multiple parties. The Btrfs RAID 5/6 code has been called as much as fatally flawed
It would be interesting to know if this has been addressed already.
The big fat red warning on btrfs' own wiki page is not inspiring trust either: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56
For data, it should be safe as long as a scrub is run immediately after any unclean shutdown