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Re:Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, bette... by _kdave on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:36PM (#33972436)
MDRAID had write hole until 4.4 (2015, https://lwn.net/Articles/665299/) and it had been long awaited back then. ZFS to my knowledge deals with that by variable stripe length that has its own problems but yeah it works. Btrfs changes implementation of the stripe update while preserving the on-disk format (i.e. can't do the same as ZFS without introducing incompatible change), intent log/bitmap have been proposed (which would be the MDRAID approach) but that's another incompatible change. So the 'next one' is at the cost of performance but with same compatibility.

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