cvubrugier

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   by cvubrugier 1y ago

   Synology SHR is btrfs (or ext4) on top of LVM and MD. MD is used for redundancy. LVM is used to aggregate multiple MD arrays into a volume group and to allow creating one or move volumes from that volume group.
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   by cvubrugier 5y ago

   Synology SHR is btrfs (or ext4) on top of LVM and MD. MD is used for redundancy. LVM is used to aggregate multiple MD arrays into a volume group and to allow creating one or move volumes from that volume group.
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   by cvubrugier 6y ago

   > How does it work if you then later add a fifth 4TB drive? If you later add a fifth 4 TB drive, two partitions (1 TB each) are created on it. The remaining 2 TB will be unused: a slice with a single element cannot be replicated. The fir
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   by cvubrugier 6y ago

   Exactly! Suppose you have four HDDs: two 1 TB HDDs and two 2 TB HDDs. A single 1 TB partition is created on the 1 TB HDDs. Two partitions (1 TB each) are created on the 2 TB HDDs. A first RAID array (what you may call a slice) is created us
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   by cvubrugier 11y ago

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