Just received 2 SSD for OS+Apps and 2 HDD (2x the size of the SSDs) for backups.
I will use Debian 12 to serve a few VMs and i’m thinking on using btrfs with RAID1 and encryption for the set of SSDs and for the set of HDDs.
I’m thinking on using a non-encrypted boot partition and md for swap and the rest of the drives for encrypted raid1 with btrfs.
Any hints or suggestion for the storage layout ?
Why would you use LVM to configure the RAID-1 devices? Btrfs supports raid1 natively.
Because familiarity and stability? Sounds like the butter RAID1 wouldn’t be a bad option either though:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/480391/btrfs-raid-1-vs-mdadm-raid-1#:~:text=BTRFS has better data safety,parallelizing writes and striping reads.