Btrfs Will Finally “Strongly Discourage” You When Creating RAID5 / RAID6 Arrays

Btrfs Will Finally “Strongly Discourage” You When Creating RAID5 / RAID6 Arrays(phoronix.com)

16 points by carwyn 5 years ago | 3 comments

hedora 5 years ago |

I wonder if this impacts synology. I’m running a RAID 6 array with btrfs on top. They handled the partitioning, so I don’t know if they’re using the built in raid 6, or the underlying Linux implementation.

ThePowerOfFuet 5 years ago | |

Synology uses Linux RAID and then uses btrfs inside the resulting metadisk.

gvkhna 5 years ago | |

Came to ask the same question. I have a hunch the raid 6 in the storage pool is separate from a file system raid. But I’ll have to do more research.

Just switched to synology for backups and looking to have a data integrity rated system for long term.

Anyone know more?