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Key point from Google's status incident page that clarifies some of the partially-incorrect statements in the press and comments about this:

"In a very small fraction of cases (less than 0.000001% of PD space in europe-west1-b), there was permanent data loss."

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15056#57195...

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Quoting the data lost as a percentage of disk space is both accurate and misleading. It makes the impact sound tiny because only recent writes were affected. Obviously writes that were in flight at the time of the incident are going to be a tiny percentage of overall storage. What they don't tell us is what percentage of persistent disks which were in use at the time were affected. That percentage is likely far higher. If only 0.000001% of volumes in use were affected it would never have made the news.

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