BTRFS misuses and misinformation
July 18, 2024•1,351 words
I'm writing this mostly so I can reference it when "people on the Internet" come-up with the same misconceptions over and over again about BTRFS.
Misuse #1: using BTRFS on top of LVM/mdadm/hardware/JBOD RAID
For whatever reason, I see a lot of people wanting to use BTRFS on top of another block device abstraction layer. Now the whole point of using a file system like BTRFS is that thanks to its copy-on-write capabilities, it can guarantee data integrity thanks to reliable check-summing of the ...
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