"PSA: Linux 5.16 has major regression in btrfs causing extreme IO load"

If that means messing with peoples fstab config it’s probably a big can of worms.

And as I said when I encountered the issue it only affected one out of multiple disks, so it’s not even a potential “let’s fix an horrible outcome for everyone” situation. Also it settled down after a while to a few MB per minute.

If a fix is coming in 5.16.4 and it doesn’t affect 5.15 LTS imho an intervention does more harm than good. If it was a huge issue we would have heard more about it in the last few weeks.

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