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0 pointscpuguy831y ago0 comments

Anecdotally and absolutely not production experience here, but I've had a Synology device running btrfs for 7 or 8 years now. Only issue I ever had is when I shipped it cross country with the drives in it, but was able to recover just fine.

This includes plenty of random power losses.

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miedpo1y ago

They do use btrfs. However, Synology also uses some additional tools on top of btrfs. From what I remember (could be wrong about the precise details), they actually run mdadm on top of btrfs, and use mdadm in order to get the erasure coding and possibly the cache NVME disk too. (By erasure coding, I mean RAID 5/6, or SHR, which are still unstable generally in BTRFS).

janc_1y ago

I assume you mean running btrfs on top of md (mdadm) or dm (dmraid), not the other way around?

miedpo1y ago

Woops, you are correct! And it looks like it is dmraid, not mdadm.

https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Sorry about that!

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0 pointscpuguy831y ago0 comments

This includes plenty of random power losses.

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miedpo1y ago

janc_1y ago

I assume you mean running btrfs on top of md (mdadm) or dm (dmraid), not the other way around?

miedpo1y ago

Woops, you are correct! And it looks like it is dmraid, not mdadm.

https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Sorry about that!

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