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As per: https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/319
mdata should be dup by default so your btrfs filesystem can handle errors more easily.
You can check if this is the case for you by using command:
sudo btrfs fi df /
In this image Metadata is already DUP however it might say that your metadata is Single such as:
Data, single: total=287.01GiB, used=206.46GiB System, single: total=32.00MiB, used=64.00KiB Metadata, single: total=10.01GiB, used=5.35GiB GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B