Btrfs maintenance
This page covers Btrfs maintenance tasks including periodic scrubbing to detect and correct data corruption in RAID arrays, balancing to optimize storage space usage, and creating snapshots for data recovery. It provides recommended intervals, example commands, and warnings about storage device health.
Btrfs RAID
This page provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a Btrfs RAID array in RouterOS, covering disk preparation, formatting, adding devices, balancing data, expanding the array, replacing members, and ensuring consistent RAID profiles.
RAID
RAID technology in RouterOS enables data storage across multiple drives with improved performance and protection, supporting RAID levels 0,1,4,5,6, linear, and nested configurations. Includes configuration examples for RAID6 and nested RAID10, plus a health-check script.
Setting a hot spare disk
This page explains how to configure a hot spare disk for a RAID array in RouterOS, enabling automatic rebuild on disk failure by assigning a spare disk to the RAID setup.