BTRFS Maintenance and the SSD parameter

October 23, 2017

I stumbled across this discussion about the ssd parameter that I’d been using in my installation guide and realized that I was very likely afflicted by what was being disucssed in the mailing list. Firing up IRC and jumping into the #btrfs discussion on freenode to ask for some clarification about how I’d examine my current state. Luckily I was able to talk with several knowledgeable people, and even knorrie who was the original author of the mailing list discussion above. ...