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by londons_explore 69 days ago
Btrfs allows migration from ext4 with a rather good rollback strategy...

Post-migration, a complete disk image of the original ext4 disk will exist within the new filesystem, using no additional disk space due to the magic of copy-on-write.

Why isn't the repair process the same? Fix the filesystem to get everything online asap, and leave a complete disk image of the old damaged filesystem so other recovery processes can be tried if necessary.