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by Fnoord 1500 days ago
This can happen on any filesystem under the circumstances of it becoming full as root. You are misinformed if you believe such isn't the case.

"Can't boot" is also vague. I've had data loss with XFS in 2002 or so (didn't have backups), couldn't mount filesystem anymore. Thanks to help on IRC from devs I got almost all data back. I've been able to get recover data from a dying Deathstar, too. And then there's the RAID5 write hole (can be mitigated), and RAID5 issues on btrfs (which are well known). For all we know you were using RAID5 shrug. Anyway, did you file a bug report, did you contact the devs?

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> This can happen on any filesystem under the circumstances of it becoming full as root. You are misinformed if you believe such isn't the case.

No true with ZFS and XFS, you are trying to defend a ill designed filesystem....in typical linux *fashion ;)

It's S#it but at least we "invented" it.