Bug#608185: btrfs-tools: balance tree action should be only triggered by root

[Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 22:49, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 21:53 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
>> Balance tree action of btrfs command should be limited to only root
>> user, because it may cause data corrupt
>
> Why would it cause corruption?
>

It shouldn't cause corruption if it always works as expected.

But any disk maintenance action may cause problem regarding the stored
data if there is something unexpected (software bug, known issues at
specific situation, etc), especially at the point btrfs is still under
heavy development. A common software failure might be bearable in some
ways, but as for a filesystem it isn't.

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Regards,
Aron Xu