mergerfs Reviews and details

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• Mergerfs and Snapraid installation

  I am planning to use ubuntu server, and I would like to ask an advice: according to snapraid's download page and mergerfs' github page, it seems to be suggested to download directly their source instead of using ubuntu's package manager. Source: 7 months ago

• Merge/Raid HDD documentation

  It seems similar to mergerfs https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs . I havent gone through any code to verify but this is what it seems like. Source: 10 months ago

• Can Rclone be reliably used as a R/W cache or is there something better suited to that task?

  Something else to try is mergerfs, https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs. Source: 10 months ago

• Looking for a solution to merge storage accross WAN

  I use mergerfs for my Google drive, Dropbox and local drives to appear as a single folder structure on my server so my plex doesn't require multiple mappings. Source: 11 months ago

• Unpackerr and Hardlinks, help needed

  Your paths are "fine", but they're not great. If you have multiple drives, you might also be interested in mergerfs to skoosh them all into "one" path, like /merge. Source: 11 months ago

• Thinking of switching from a 4 bay hardware RAID 5 to an 8 bay JBOD. Looking for opinions.

  I myself prescribe to the teachings of the IronicBadger(Alex Kretzshmar) from the Self-Hosted podcast and (when I get one setup) intend to follow the guides on his site https://perfectmediaserver.com and use mergerfs to turn a JBOD to a single filesystem and use SnapRAID for redundancy. Source: 12 months ago

• an unknown system crash (Fedora 37) - 'timed out waiting for device'; 'dependency failed'; 'detected aborted journal'; 'remounting filesystem read-only'

  Note that I'm running merferfs 2.35.1 and Transmission daemon 4.0.2 (2a57b17031) (the latter was one release behind at the time of the error). Source: 12 months ago

• RockPro64 boot issues

  Since I store static files shared via NFS and Samba I use snapraid run every night to make a parity file (backup of a backup haha), mergefs to simulate one big drive, and each drive is encrypted with luks. Not a great setup for a DB but could also partition and RAIDx just those. I can lose 1 disk with 0% loss but 2 disks and I loose only the files on those 2 disks (was less of a loss when I had 10 drives). I also... Source: about 1 year ago

• How to design big 36-drive XFS array and setup Linux to report failures?

  Ah gotcha. I can understand building it yourself, it's the best way to learn IMO. Mergerfs merges multiple logical paths together. It looks like it's still maintained and was updated recently. Source: about 1 year ago

• Question about cache type (Raid 0 vs Single Mode)

  There's mergerfs. It's not native to unraid, so you'll have to install it. See this post to get the binary. Source: about 1 year ago

• What's the current best storage array / pool to use?

  Maybe have a look at mergerfs: Mergerfs Git-Hub It looks like a good solution for your needs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Looking for Feedback on my OMV6 setup

  Since migrating to ZFS means copying all the data twice (of from the HDD, and in the ZFS Pool) and your data is rarely changing I would suggest going with Snapraid (a "Raid" on Filesystem basis) and MergerFS (merging all drives under one Path), you can start with already Filled drives so no copying involved. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is it possible to combine 2 LVMs into a single one?

  MergerFS is a uniom filesystem that will create one mount point/folders out of two drives/paritions. You set policies that define where new data will be written, but the content of both drives appears as one folder. Source: about 1 year ago

• Plex S3 + rclone

  I've been accomplishing something similar using Mergerfs. I'm thinking your solution is a bit more elegant, saving this post to try it out one day! Source: about 1 year ago

• Should I merge two SSDs into "one disk" on my PC?

  I wouldn't trust a filesystem on spanned volume any more than one on RAID 0. For the "only files on the failed disk are lost" guarantee you need separate filesystems and something like mergerfs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Can I use all 10 drive trays on a Dell R630? Different volumes? Different drive types?

  If you plan to use linux take a look at mergerfs. It lets you use drives of various sizes combined into a single volume with the benefit that no file spans multiple drives. If you want to add redundancy you can add snapraid. Additionally, the path for adding additional storage space (when you want it later) is significantly easier compared to RAID or ZFS. Source: about 1 year ago

• DIY NAS using Nvidia Shield TV Pro and old HDDs and SSD

  Yes I run it on my server using mergerfs. Links as many drives as I need into one volume and I point radarr sonarr and jellyfin to my media folder. I recommend just following a youtube tutorial instead of wasting time reading the whole documentation. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to present 6 SSDs attached to 6 CM4s as a single drive

  Take a look at mergerfs (https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs) and try to maybe set it up on one of the nodes and have the other disks mounted via sshfs. If it's all LAN like network, performance should be pretty decent. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ability to collate multiple servers in clients

  If you want access to your friends media and vice versa, you could both setup a network share (NFS over wireguard would probably be the fastest, or SSHFS/SFTP) and then mount each other's media share's and afterwards, if you want to have a single media folder, you can combine your media folder with your friends with something like mergerfs or unionfs. Source: over 1 year ago

• Data integrity on Windows 10 Pro storage spaces

  Snapraid works best with mergerfs so I wouldn’t recommend windows storage spaces. Source: over 1 year ago

• Make 3 ssd show as one on install

  Https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs Zero fault tolerance, but I've had no issues so far. Just make sure you don't go under the minimum free space (user specified) or you'll start losing files. Source: over 1 year ago