Btrfs Gets More RAID 5/6 Fixes In Linux 4.16

There are some minor improvements like a zero range mode for fallocate, code clean-ups, improved bio merging on multiple devices, compression heuristic changes, and other small work.
Recent kernel updates have also seen needed improvements to Btrfs' RAID5/RAID6 code and that has continued too with Linux 4.16. RAID5/6 recovery code will not use cached stripes to avoid a situation that could lead to corruption or failures in the future. The Btrfs code for this kernel will also try harder to rebuild damaged data in RAID5/RAID6 arrays. There is also a fix for the scrubbing code to repair RAID5/6 in a better way.
The complete list of Btrfs kernel driver changes for Linux 4.16 can be found via this already honored pull request.
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