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Maybe I'll have to take another look at it when I have some free time, although I vaguely remember something not working right with the standard mdraid tools. A

by mfkp 6y ago

Maybe I'll have to take another look at it when I have some free time, although I vaguely remember something not working right with the standard mdraid tools. According to this post, it seems to be a slightly customized version: https://serverfault.com/questions/568166/how-to-recover-an-mdadm-array-on-synology-nas-with-drive-in-e-state https://serverfault.com/questions/568166/how-to-recover-an-m... Thinking back on this situation made me remember the terrible thermals in that old NAS. I had to replace the (fanless) PSU 2 times because it was always blowing up and creating sparks/smoke. Lol good times.

vetinari 6y ago
They have it customized, they have also btrfs integrated with md, which is not in the stock kernel, but these are runtime things. Not to say there are not a ways to shoot yourself in the foot (e.g. being careful when creating ext4 volume with external machine, target nas might have older kernel that doesn't support half of the newer ext4 features and 64 bits). I never had any problem with thermals or psu, but I've heard other people had psu problems.