Re: mdadm -> BTRFS conversion

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 18:00 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Nothing to add but the usual caveats:
> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Timeout_Mismatch

That´s pretty scary, though the drives I´m using are 1TB units
scavenged from my extinct NAS so are unlikely to be SMR. They´re both
WD model WD10EZEX drives.
> I use udev for that instead of init scripts. Concept is the same
> though, you want SCT ERC time to be shorter than kernel's command
> timer.

I´ve been using MD for a while and haven´t seen any errors so far.
> The btrfsmaintenance package has a scrub.timer that you can configure
> and enable. It's sufficient to scrub once a month or two, but doesn't
> hurt to do it more often.

Yes, I have that enabled already, running once a month.

Thanks.

poc