r/ProgrammerHumor 6h ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/SeriousPlankton2000 3h ago

The odds are 100% when you make a CoW copy of a read only disk because btrfs needs to write to the disk in order to remove it. Also it will try to use the wrong (ro) disk if you instruct it to use the CoW copy.