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diff --git a/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc b/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc index 6a492658..0c43a798 100644 --- a/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Other terms commonly used: *block group*:: *chunk*:: a logical range of space of a given profile, stores data, metadata or both; -sometimes the terms are used interchangably +sometimes the terms are used interchangeably + A typical size of metadata block group is 256MiB (filesystem smaller than 50GiB) and 1GiB (larger than 50GiB), for data it's 1GiB. The system block group @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ 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 -deduplicating them. This negates the purpose of increased redunancy and just +deduplicating them. This negates the purpose of increased redundancy and just wastes space. The duplicated data/metadata may still be useful to statistically improve the |