Bcache + Btrfs DIED with NO hardware fault!

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I was unable to confirm that the underlying SSD or HDD drives were having any issues. I don't know why Bcache got corrupted all of a sudden, making my root Btrfs filesystem unbootable as well.

I've had a 2-months old backup of the root partition (when I moved my Btrfs filesystem to Bcache).

No project data was lost, I had that on an a separate drive, on another Btrfs filesystem. And also I do incremental backups of that ever day.

If you want to learn why installing Arch Linux took me 3 days, here's a forum thread I've started when I got stuck:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=271206

Going forward I'll make better better backups to recover quickly from such failures.







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system failure
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btrfs
arch Linux
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