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Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'



On Saturday 7 May, 2011 07:04:16 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> As a current btrfs user, I don't recommend you run it on the Squeeze kernel 
> (2.6.32-5) because there are certain circumstances where it doesn't gracefully 
> handle out-of-space issues and that "df" reports for it lie.  I recently filed 
> a bug against the Debian kernel due to this; two BUG() calls within a second 
> leading to a broken btrfs module and needing a reboot and some manual file 
> system recovery.

Wow, yeah.  For having been years in development and fully financially supported by Oracle, this filesystem is a trainwreck.  I'm ditching it.

But I did submit a bug by email on grub-pc.

What a mess.  Scary.


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