OK so from the 1MiB of md member number 2 that survived being wiped; I've got this Btrfs superblock at offset 192KiB, and it decodes as: superblock: bytenr=65536, device=/dev/mapper/vg-synology --------------------------------------------------------- csum_type 0 (crc32c) csum_size 4 csum 0x21b26c4d [match] bytenr 65536 flags 0x1 ( WRITTEN ) magic _BHRfS_M [match] fsid f4bc4bd1-af0d-4d54-9b05-6a719ddec086 label 2017.05.25-01:26:55 v15101 generation 1599066 root 7836911304704 sys_array_size 129 chunk_root_generation 1595847 root_level 1 chunk_root 20971520 chunk_root_level 1 log_root 0 log_root_transid 0 log_root_level 0 total_bytes 11987484409856 bytes_used 7841685688320 sectorsize 4096 nodesize 16384 leafsize (deprecated) 16384 stripesize 4096 root_dir 6 num_devices 1 compat_flags 0x8000000000000000 compat_ro_flags 0x0 incompat_flags 0x16b ( MIXED_BACKREF | DEFAULT_SUBVOL | COMPRESS_LZO | BIG_METADATA | EXTENDED_IREF | SKINNY_METADATA ) cache_generation 9 uuid_tree_generation 1599066 dev_item.uuid e40c544c-3d7d-4e01-93af-a5b70985d4f1 dev_item.fsid f4bc4bd1-af0d-4d54-9b05-6a719ddec086 [match] dev_item.type 0 dev_item.total_bytes 11987484409856 dev_item.bytes_used 8161528381440 dev_item.io_align 4096 dev_item.io_width 4096 dev_item.sector_size 4096 dev_item.devid 1 dev_item.dev_group 0 dev_item.seek_speed 0 dev_item.bandwidth 0 dev_item.generation 0 sys_chunk_array[2048]: item 0 key (FIRST_CHUNK_TREE CHUNK_ITEM 20971520) length 8388608 owner 2 stripe_len 65536 type SYSTEM|DUP io_align 65536 io_width 65536 sector_size 4096 num_stripes 2 sub_stripes 0 stripe 0 devid 1 offset 20971520 dev_uuid e40c544c-3d7d-4e01-93af-a5b70985d4f1 stripe 1 devid 1 offset 29360128 dev_uuid e40c544c-3d7d-4e01-93af-a5b70985d4f1 backup_roots[4]: backup 0: backup_tree_root: 7836911124480 gen: 1599065 level: 1 backup_chunk_root: 20971520 gen: 1595847 level: 1 backup_extent_root: 7836910977024 gen: 1599065 level: 2 backup_fs_root: 29573120 gen: 7 level: 0 backup_dev_root: 7836738093056 gen: 1598949 level: 1 backup_csum_root: 7836910911488 gen: 1599065 level: 3 backup_total_bytes: 11987484409856 backup_bytes_used: 7841685688320 backup_num_devices: 1 backup 1: backup_tree_root: 7836911304704 gen: 1599066 level: 1 backup_chunk_root: 20971520 gen: 1595847 level: 1 backup_extent_root: 7836911321088 gen: 1599066 level: 2 backup_fs_root: 29573120 gen: 7 level: 0 backup_dev_root: 7836738093056 gen: 1598949 level: 1 backup_csum_root: 7836910911488 gen: 1599065 level: 3 backup_total_bytes: 11987484409856 backup_bytes_used: 7841685688320 backup_num_devices: 1 backup 2: backup_tree_root: 7836907847680 gen: 1599063 level: 1 backup_chunk_root: 20971520 gen: 1595847 level: 1 backup_extent_root: 7836907667456 gen: 1599063 level: 2 backup_fs_root: 29573120 gen: 7 level: 0 backup_dev_root: 7836738093056 gen: 1598949 level: 1 backup_csum_root: 7836908044288 gen: 1599064 level: 3 backup_total_bytes: 11987484409856 backup_bytes_used: 7841685733376 backup_num_devices: 1 backup 3: backup_tree_root: 7836910469120 gen: 1599064 level: 1 backup_chunk_root: 20971520 gen: 1595847 level: 1 backup_extent_root: 7836909551616 gen: 1599064 level: 2 backup_fs_root: 29573120 gen: 7 level: 0 backup_dev_root: 7836738093056 gen: 1598949 level: 1 backup_csum_root: 7836908044288 gen: 1599064 level: 3 backup_total_bytes: 11987484409856 backup_bytes_used: 7841685704704 backup_num_devices: 1 The section I'm interested in is the sys_chunk_array. There is one system chunk, and the profile is DUP, so two copies, one at 20MiB and the other 28MiB offset. So the system chunk is outside the erased area. John, can you check the 10T drive backup of /dev/md3? I think it's /dev/sdd1 so if that's still the case I'm curious if there's really still only zeros in that first megabyte. $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdd1 count=2048 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C And then pastebin that somewhere with maybe a 7 day expiration. I wonder if it's really zero, and if not it might actually be valid and we wanna make sure that it's not stepped on when repairing LVM metadata. --- Chris Murphy