On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 06:26:26PM +0530, Anand Jain wrote: > Agreed this method is unreliable. But there is no other choice. > Unless we integrated [1] patch in the ML. > > [1] btrfs: introduce new read_policy device > > [1] is more reliable. You can set which mirrored device to read. I actually thought about something like this as the reliable way to hit a mirror. Besides testing I could also thing of some other use cases for it where you want to avoid a mirror by default for some reason (e.g. because it is network attached store while the other one is local).