Building an Enterprise Homelab - Part 5: The Synology Btrfs Trap
Summary
Part 5 of Building an Enterprise Homelab documents migrating five drives from a failed Synology DX517 to a Proxmox/TrueNAS setup, recovering three mdadm arrays, and attempting to mount Btrfs. The author details Synology-internal btrfs flag differences that upstream kernels reject, explores kernel patching as a workaround, and notes that data remained intact behind read-only mounts. The piece sets up Part 6, which will cover copying data to a permanent home and building ZFS pools.