Yup. After having dealt with that, I err on the side of caution and don't even let it merge small files into inodes for space savings. I still love btrfs for th

Yup. After having dealt with that, I err on the side of caution and don't even let it merge small files into inodes for space savings. I still love btrfs for the CoW, snapshots, and compression, but you really gotta give that metadata a wide berth.