Ok, thank you. At least I'm not alone with this. However, I'm not too much into it and would not go as far to say it's not a recommendable project, but boy was I mad it just died without any way to recover ANYTHING :-)
Re:Btrfs Allocator Hints
by taskforcegemini on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:57AM
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probably depends on where the issue is located, but is this not normally the case with encrypted drives?
No. Encrypted drives should be recoverable as long as you have the valid decryption values.
I think it had nothing to do with the encryption layer... the FS layer was the problem.
I ran it on opensuse and it would 100% lock out a core on some sort of crontab tree structure rebalancing (?) .. I mean.. hello? online algorithm? Dynamic rebalancing? scheduled FS restructuring, really? ReiserFS dancing trees from 20 years ago? If thats how they think, "meh, the user just has to deal", no wonder this is how they handle bugs.
These same people are the only ones in the world suggesting btrfs is "basically" stable. I'll never touch this project again with a ten foot pole, afaic it's run by children. I'll trust adults with my data.