I was wondering about the possibility of using the following setup with write-caching
btrfs
bcache
fast
mdadm (RAID-1)
ssd_1
ssd_2
slow
mdadm (RAID-5)
hdd_1
hdd_2
hdd_3
hdd_4
Is this viable / reasonable? The arch wiki mentions the possibility of data loss when using write-caching when the SSD fails, but shouldn’t the SSD RAID array prevent that? It also mentions “bcache and BTRFS could leave you with a corrupted file system” is this still true? The wiki page mentions that it’s unclear if this is still an issue.
Someone also left the following comment on the discussions page regarding BTRFS in 2023:
The issues with btrfs + bcache were fixed 10 years ago. The btrfs wiki no longer mentions historic gotchas for kernels older than 4.14. I think we should remove this warning. Any objections?
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