OPTIONS
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-*-A|--alloc-start <offset>*::
-(An option to help debugging chunk allocator.)
-Specify the (physical) offset from the start of the device at which allocations
-start. The default value is zero.
-
*-b|--byte-count <size>*::
-Specify the size of the filesystem. If this option is not used,
+Specify the size of the filesystem. If this option is not used, then
mkfs.btrfs uses the entire device space for the filesystem.
*-d|--data <profile>*::
multiple of the sectorsize and a power of 2, but not larger than 64KiB (65536).
Leafsize always equals nodesize and the options are aliases.
+
-Smaller node size increases fragmentation but leads to higher b-trees which in
+Smaller node size increases fragmentation but leads to taller b-trees which in
turn leads to lower locking contention. Higher node sizes give better packing
and less fragmentation at the cost of more expensive memory operations while
updating the metadata blocks.
*--help*::
Print help.
+*-A|--alloc-start <offset>*::
+*deprecated, will be removed*
+(An option to help debugging chunk allocator.)
+Specify the (physical) offset from the start of the device at which allocations
+start. The default value is zero.
+
SIZE UNITS
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The default unit is 'byte'. All size parameters accept suffixes in the 1024
before all block devices are discovered. The waiting is usually done on the
initramfs/initrd systems.
-As of kernel 4.9, RAID5/6 is still considered experimental and shouldn't be
+As of kernel 4.14, RAID5/6 is still considered experimental and shouldn't be
employed for production use.
FILESYSTEM FEATURES
the logical blocks to 2 physical locations. Whether there are really 2
physical copies highly depends on the underlying device type.
-For example, a SSD drive can remap the blocks internally to a single copy thus
+For example, a SSD drive can remap the blocks internally to a single copy--thus
deduplicating them. This negates the purpose of increased redundancy and just
-wastes filesystem space without the expected level of redundancy.
+wastes filesystem space without providing the expected level of redundancy.
The duplicated data/metadata may still be useful to statistically improve the
chances on a device that might perform some internal optimizations. The actual