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by Hello71 1281 days ago
according to https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu..., btrfs devs say you should not add degraded to fstab, and doing so can easily result in data loss.
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The quote is "At this stage of development, a disk failure should cause mount failure so you're alerted to the problem." and it's from over 9 years ago on an ancient kernel. That was just 3+ years since btrfs project got started.

Let's treat it as archived historical content it is.