On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 09:51:59PM +0200, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > I think that the David concern is : "what happens for an already > existing btrfs raid6 3 disks filesystem when the user upgrade the kernel ?" > (I am thinking when a new BG needs to be allocated)...
Then it will cleanly fail to mount instead of constantly corrupting data and memory with every write, yes. Which clearly suggest that such file systems don't exist in the wild. But if btrfs wants to keep supporting this I'll just add a _unsafe version without the check in the core library.
