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by cmurf 2340 days ago
The write-hole problem is a rare case, wherever it happens. https://lwn.net/Articles/665299/

On Btrfs, in case of bad parity being used to reconstruct a stripe, the resulting bad reconstruction is still subject to data checksumming, and will EIO. Corrupt data won't be sent to user space.