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I enjoy it as ext4++. Would I trust it for RAID? Not particularly. There seems to be a decent amount of foot-guns still and I would greatly prefer just using Z
by doublepg23 3y ago
I enjoy it as ext4++. Would I trust it for RAID? Not particularly.
There seems to be a decent amount of foot-guns still and I would greatly prefer just using ZFS.
Granted, I do trust Synology using btrfs but they are also subject matter experts on the topic.
- ianlevesque 3y agoSynology doesn’t use btrfs in raid mode either. They put it on top of their LVM-based RAID instead.
- doublepg23 3y agoI thought I heard that as well but I had another person disagree so I’m not sure who is right.
- ianlevesque 3y agoThey are mistaken. In Synology DSM you create a "pool" which is LVM-based under the hood, then inside the pool you can add btrfs & ext4 "volumes" that coexist inside the pool. They would need to let you create a btrfs pool instead if they were doing btrfs on bare drives.