Upgrading my RN104 from 6.1.9

FYI, what I meant by "this is done" is I sent the logs. :smileyhappy:

May have replied to the wrong post .

BJB

Bit-rot protection and snapshots will lead to a lot of fragmentation if used on shares that you backup to.

Your snapshots were not upgraded when you updated to 6.2.5. Do you still need those?

mdgm,

Since you are commenting on my snapshots I assume you got my logs?  I do not need those snapshots.  However I did not receive any message that they were not updated.   Since they were not updated can I delete them in 6.2.5?

As far as share and bitrot settings, here are my shares.  I have a backup share that is strictly for disk images. A picture share where images are copied there and stay there. No deleting.  And a video share where things are added and occasionally streamed.  No deleting.  Just let me know the best share and bitrot settings for each or all of these.

And if I have to delete those shares or something let me know how and when.  I guess I need to sort that out, set the right share and bitrot settings, then run my maintenance stuff, then upgrade whenever I want.

Thanks again,

BJB

I can remove these remotely. Would be best to do this before updating to 6.4 seeing how full your volume is.

Generally this is true: If files are regularly being modified in place then bitrot is bad. If you are mainly adding files but not editing them then bitrot is good.

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mdgm wrote:

 

Generally this is true: If files are regularly being modified in place then bitrot is bad. If you are mainly adding files but not editing them then bitrot is good.

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This is certainly true for snapshots - when files are modified in place, they end up fragmented, which will hurt performance.

AFAIK bitrot protection only needs the btrfs checksums.  I don't see any particular reason why modifying files in place is a problem for the file system or for bitrot protection itself,  as long as there are no snapshots kept for the share.  Can you elaborate a bit more on your thinking here?