On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 09:54:44AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > Do you have any pointers to other breakage caused by this particular > behaviour of btrfs? It would to have all requirements clearly on the > table while designing a solution. A quick google find: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/b5e7e64a-741c-baee-bc4d-cd51ca9b3a38@xxxxxxxxx/T/ https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50859 https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/301 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317127 https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/4009 https://bugs.python.org/issue37339 http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2017-June/004292.html and that is just the first 2 or three pages of trivial search results.