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I believe Synology runs btrfs on top of regular mdraid + lvm, possibly with patches to let btrfs checksum failures reach into the underlying layers to find the right data to recover.

Related blog post: https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/



That was very interesting reading, thanks!




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