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Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool

https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/1107

Case study: recovery of a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, plus constructive gap analysis and reference tool set · Issue #1107 · kdave/btrfs-progs

Hello, and thanks in advance for reading. This is not a bug report. It is a case study write up of a recovery effort on a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, shared here in case any of the ...

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Retr0id 4d ago

This is obviously LLM output, but perhaps LLM output that corresponds to a real scenario. It's plausible that Claude was able to autonomously recover a corrupted fs, but I would not trust its "insights" by default. I'd love to see a btrfs dev's take on this!

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This is also my first impulse. The second was, if this happened to me, I would not be able to recover it. All the custom c tool talk... If you ask Claude Code it will code something up.

Well that he recovered the disks is amazing in itself. I would have given up and just pulled a backup.

However, I would like to see a Dev saying: why didn't you use the --<flag> which we created for this Usecase