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Re:Btrfs Allocator Hints by fpoling on Friday July 11, 2025 @02:16PM (#44535366)
Have you used 4K sectors with cryptsetup? Many distributions still defaults to 512 bytes if SSD reports 512 bytes as its logical size and with 512 sectors there are heavier load on the system.

I was reluctant to use BTRFS on my Linux laptop but for the last 3 years I have been using it with 4K cryptsetup with no issues.

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Re:Btrfs Allocator Hints by sandreas on Friday July 11, 2025 @02:28PM (#44535478)
I used the default archinstall... did not check the sector size, but good to hear it works for you. Maybe I'll check again with my next setup.
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Re:Btrfs Allocator Hints by homebrewer on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:26PM (#44537387)
FWIW, basically all of arch linux' infrastructure has been running on top of btrfs for several years, and last time I asked them, they didn't have any more problems with it than with any other filesystem.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure

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