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		Someone on Dec 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is the actual state of brtfs? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs#RAID: "Parity RAID (RAID 5/6) code has multiple serious data-loss bugs in it.". AFAIK, that was true back in July. It likely still is. I have no opinion on whether using it without it is safe, but I would definitely avoid RAID.

bantunes on Dec 26, 2016 [–]

A fix has been proposed recently:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg60595.html

Bombthecat on Dec 26, 2016 | [–]

Ha thanks! That what I was hoping for!

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