Comment by _joel

5 days ago

I'm similar to some other people here, I guess once they've been bitten by data loss due to btrfs, it's difficult to advocate for it.

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lousken  5 days ago

I am assuming almost everybody at some point experienced data loss because they pulled out a flash drive too early. Is it safe to assume that we stopped using flash drives because of it?

  • _joel  5 days ago

    I'm not sure we have stopped using flash, judging by the pile of USB sticks on my desk :) In relation to the fs analogy if you used a flash drive that you know corrupted your data, you'd throw it away for one you know works.

    • ryao  4 days ago

      I once purchased a bunch of flash drives from Google’s online swag store and just unplugging them was often enough to put then in a state where they claimed to be 8MB devices and nothing I wrote to them was ever possible to read back in my limited tests. I stopped using those fast.