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Thanks for the info, and yes I was little confused about exactly how mdadm and LVM work, I thought they were mutually exclusive. Now its a bit clearer. I will read the PDF you attached. I was simply trying to point out that BTRFS is stable and reliable if you are using it over LVM and mdadm...

That was the RAID/volume management part of BTRFS. You don't have to use BTRFS to manage RAID (Although you lose some features but it's not stable anyway). BTRFS doesn't use a LVM (I Know I used the wrong terminology before, should have said BTRFS volume management), it manages the volumes...

The Filesystem is rock solid. It’s been tested, tried and true now for years. I recommend you read this article. https://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/2016-btrfs-really-next-filesystem/

I'm not sure you fully understand or have even done any research. BTRFS data loss is caused by the BTRFS RAID/volume management, its still not 100% stable and not recommended for anything but a test setup. Synology uses mdadm for the RAID and BTRFS as the filesystem. There are plenty of large...

EXT4 is only one year older than BTRFS, EXT4 development started in 2006 and BTRFS development started in 2007. They're pretty much both equally mature. No, it's not, however the way Synology is installed, you can simply swap the drives into a legitimate Synology NAS if the project disappears...

Better off using Synology DSM, they had this feature ages ago and they use a superior filesystem, BTRFS. They use their own LVM though because the BTRFS one is dodgy (File System is rock solid though). Plus there is a boot loader to run on your own hardware, search "Xpenology Jun Loader". I've...

Fine with me. Stock firmware is good enough for me. These days my router config is mostly stock, just some port forwarding to my servers which run all my goodies.

Anyone got any news about the Asus RT-AC3200? I’m hoping they upgrade it because I’m pretty keen to use AiMesh!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Hi people, I have an Asus RT-AC3200 running the latest stable merlin. CFE 1.0.1.6 I'm having problems with my wireless performance. On 5G1 radio I have options 36, 40, 44, 48. On 5G2 radio I have options 149, 153, 157, 161, 165 Hovering over the wireless icon I can see that 5G1 radio ids...

Righto, good news. Also, do firmware updates also upgrade the CFE version, I bought my RT-AC3200 in Australia and have CFE version 1.0.1.6. I found a CFE dump here for EU 2.0.0.3, or are there specific ones for Australia? Cheers.

Do you think the RT-AC3200 will be updated? It has a Broadcom ARM CPU so I'm guessing I should be sweet :D

Ok, I think the issue is being caused by channel availability and Asus not letting us select country codes. I can see when I scan my area there is a 5GHz network advertising 80MHz channel width (AU country code), however my RT-AC3200 will only broadcast 20MHz on 5G2 and 40MHz on 5G1 regardless...

Hi thiggins, yes I'm aware of of streams and channel width. While clients can connect at their maximum rates, what I'm asking is if one device connects at a channel width of 20MHz will that limit the rest on that radio to 20MHz also?

Hey guys, I have a Wave 1 AC router, the Asus RT-AC3200 running Merlin firmware. I have observed that on one of the 5GHz (5G2) radios I can only achieve 20MHz, whereas on the other (5G1) I can achieve 40MHz. The difference is I only connect my MacBook Pro 3x3 and Apple TV 4th Gen and 4K to my...