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> btrfs still doesn't have reliable RAID5 Synology offers btrfs + RAID5 without warning the user. I wonder why they’re so confident with it.
by sedatk 3y ago
> btrfs still doesn't have reliable RAID5
Synology offers btrfs + RAID5 without warning the user. I wonder why they’re so confident with it.
- bestham 3y agoThey are running brtrfs on top of DM. https://kb.synology.com/en-nz/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID_implementation_for_Btrfs_File_System_on_SynologyNAS https://kb.synology.com/en-nz/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID...
- sedatk 3y agoThanks for the link!
- sporkle-feet 3y agoSynology doesn't use the btrfs raid - AIUI they layer non-raid btrfs over raid LVM
- sedatk 3y agoThanks, I wonder what the advantage of using FS-based RAID is.