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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> Case study: recovery of a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, plus constructive gap analysis and reference tool set #1107

Please don't be btrfs please don't be btrfs please don't be btrfs...

I mean, the only other option was bcachefs, which might have been funny if this LLM-generated blogpost were written by the OpenClaw instance the developer has decided is sentient:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the_blog_...

But no. It was btrfs.

As a side note, it's somewhat impressive that an LLM agent was able to produce a suite of custom tools that were apparently successfully used to recover some data from a corrupted btrfs array, even ad-hoc.