jiub :v_enby: :v_trans: :v_est: on Nostr: yeah the btrfs ability to shrink volumes was one of the reasons i originally chose it ...

yeah the btrfs ability to shrink volumes was one of the reasons i originally chose it back then. that is a nice feature as a home user because i'll often have spare drives that are smaller but could be used to replace a failed drive in the array. i did see a hacky way to shrink a zpool but it's trivial on btrfs. and you can also dynamically change the type of data/metadata allocation on btrfs, e.g. going from a single drive to mirrored or almost any other direction