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by cpuguy83 699 days ago
Anecdotally and absolutely not production experience here, but I've had a Synology device running btrfs for 7 or 8 years now. Only issue I ever had is when I shipped it cross country with the drives in it, but was able to recover just fine.

This includes plenty of random power losses.
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miedpo 699 days ago
They do use btrfs. However, Synology also uses some additional tools on top of btrfs. From what I remember (could be wrong about the precise details), they actually run mdadm on top of btrfs, and use mdadm in order to get the erasure coding and possibly the cache NVME disk too. (By erasure coding, I mean RAID 5/6, or SHR, which are still unstable generally in BTRFS).
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janc_ 698 days ago
I assume you mean running btrfs on top of md (mdadm) or dm (dmraid), not the other way around?
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miedpo 698 days ago
Woops, you are correct! And it looks like it is dmraid, not mdadm.

https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Sorry about that!

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