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I think newer kernels and newer btrfs tools have fixed this chicken-or-egg problem with mounting and removing devices in degraded configurations, but I haven't checked this. I just remember having read something that very much said something along those lines. Anyways. I lost my trust in btrfs as a viable alternative to ZFS. It's just YAFS XP: yet another file system and experimental for decades.
– Arc
Commented Feb 7, 2016 at 11:20
@Archimedix funny you should say that. During writing my answer I was going to talk about BTRFS's stability and talk about my temptation to switch to ZFS after this with the pros/cons of each, but decided to leave it out as it would probably not be found as constructive. I agree with you though; If you can use ZFS then do.
– Programster
Commented Feb 7, 2016 at 11:24

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