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Re:Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, bette... by dale_glass on Monday December 12, 2022 @06:25PM (#33961957)
That seems like a very hacky way to accomplish something that should just work. I mean, it's better than nothing, but it seems far from ideal.

If it's your own personal box, and you're okay with that fiddling, fine. But if people are supposed to get work done while the admin gets a new disk, it's not great.

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Re:Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, bette... by mlyle on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:16AM (#33965120)
There's pretty solid reasons why you might choose to have a very simple RAID1 set for a boot volume-- because you want to be sure to boot even if the huge array is degraded, and because you want faster I/O for the OS install, etc...
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