Integrity streams are enabled by default on mirrored pools, as per your first link: > By default, when the /i switch is not specified, the behavior that the sy

Integrity streams are enabled by default on mirrored pools, as per your first link: > By default, when the /i switch is not specified, the behavior that the system chooses depends on whether the volume resides on a mirrored space. On a mirrored space, integrity is enabled because we expect the benefits to significantly outweigh the costs. Plus: > When this option, known as “integrity streams,” is enabled, ReFS always writes the file changes to a location different from the original one. This allocate-on-write technique ensures that pre-existing data is not lost due to the new write