Re: Unclean shutdowns cause google-chrome profile to be corrupted in various ways
From: Holger Hoffstätte <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-23 13:09:58
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:32:49 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
[snip] Thanks for that data point, so that rules out discard and SSDs. Given that, it sounds like btrfs may still have a bug where everything does not get to disk in the right order before the system stops.
A popular candidate for this is mmap'ed IO (almost always a bad idea, certainly for writes). This almost always goes wrong one way or the other, depending on filesystem + block/VFS/mm bugs of the day. -h