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[66.158.151.214]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m196sm16459239qke.87.2020.09.15.06.30.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Maxim Cournoyer References: <8d2d6787-6649-2089-8d5e-a43fba6041e7@disroot.org> <20200831231730.021e45f4@scratchpost.org> <87h7s6jc98.fsf@gnu.org> <87363k5r1n.fsf@gmail.com> <878sdcb1ac.fsf@gnu.org> <95c4430f-1a98-50ad-cb6a-0adb1ec6039a@disroot.org> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:31:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <95c4430f-1a98-50ad-cb6a-0adb1ec6039a@disroot.org> (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:51:05 -0400") Message-ID: <87tuvzp3nc.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-BeenThere: bug-guix@gnu.org List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: 43132-done@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail (rsa verify failed) header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=aV/BR2Ux; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: 0.09 X-TUID: bjKaXUjerv5m Hello Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hi! > >> Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >>=20 >>> I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a >>> failing drive was established as the most likely culprit. >>> >>> In other words, Btrfs checksuming capabilities helped quickly >>> discovering a hardware problem which might otherwise have silently >>> caused non-recoverable damage to Raghav's data. >>=20 >> Good, thanks for following up! >>=20 >> Ludo=E2=80=99. > > Thank you! > > Yeah, seems like my disk is shot, but I am not sure. I have reinstalled > guix with ext4, instead of btrfs, as these issues started to arise after > migration to btrfs from ext4. So far, my system is doing well. Lets see > how it goes. :-) Sounds like playing with fire to me :-). Ext4 won't detect bitrot (silent corruption of your drive's data). You'll probably wake one day with a fsck that won't be able to recover some files, or worst, a completely dead drive. Your backups would also contain corrupted data (garbage in, garbage out!). Maxim