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JBOD + BTRFS - questions
Hi, I don't own a NAS yet but I'm looking at buying a NETGEAR one due to support for btrfs. Here's what I'd like to do: - I want a single volume - I don't care about performance (so no strip...
Volume expansion is supported, but only for volumes with some kind of redundancy e.g. RAID-1 and only with disks that are inside the NAS. If you are familiar with the shell it may be possible to manually expand a JBOD volume but this is not supported.
That won't work. We use BTRFS on top of mdadm (yes, we use mdadm even if you have a single disk volume) and we use different partitions for the OS, swap and the data volume. You would need to enter more commands than that and the command to expand the volume would be a little different (as you are not expanding sda, but a volume on raid).
Volume expansion is supported, but only for volumes with some kind of redundancy e.g. RAID-1 and only with disks that are inside the NAS. If you are familiar with the shell it may be possible to manually expand a JBOD volume but this is not supported.
That won't work. We use BTRFS on top of mdadm (yes, we use mdadm even if you have a single disk volume) and we use different partitions for the OS, swap and the data volume. You would need to enter more commands than that and the command to expand the volume would be a little different (as you are not expanding sda, but a volume on raid).
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