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I just subscribed to this list so in case this subject has already been discussed at length, my apologies. I have been waiting for btrfs forever. I have been waiting for it to become reasonably stable. In the wake of escalating problems with my old hardware RAID setup, I decided now was the time to make the transition. At this point I have been completely transitioned to btrfs for nearly

I want to eliminate the COW feature on all of my OS files. It is a nice feature for user files, but I don''t see a clear benefit for the actual OS files. And I suspect that COW induced fragmentation is causing or aggravating problems with my system including the boot open_ctree problem. I had planned to recursively chattr these files to "nodatacow" status but then I ran