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		forza_user 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Btrfs Allocator Hints I was surprised of the new attempt for performance profiles/device roles/hints when we already have a very good patch set maintained by kakra. - https://github.com/kakra/linux/pull/36 - https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Btrfs/Allocator_Hints What do you think?

dontdoxxme 3 months ago [–]

> One of the reasons why these patches are not included in the kernel is that the free space calculations do not work properly.

It seems these patches possibly fix that.

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