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Re:Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems by Freaky on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:53PM (#7065292)
Integrity streams are enabled by default on mirrored pools, as per your first link:

> By default, when the /i switch is not specified, the behavior that the system chooses depends on whether the volume resides on a mirrored space. On a mirrored space, integrity is enabled because we expect the benefits to significantly outweigh the costs.

Plus:

> When this option, known as “integrity streams,” is enabled, ReFS always writes the file changes to a location different from the original one. This allocate-on-write technique ensures that pre-existing data is not lost due to the new write

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