It’s proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

Thanks

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    The big thing is very easily mix and match different sizes of disks. ZFS as of recently can sort of do that, but its not as efficient.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Mergerfs can do that too and you can keep the underlying fs as whatever you want.

      • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 minutes ago

        Yes, but it does not have redundancy or caching. Redundancy can be achieved with snapraid, but how you get caching I don’t know…

      • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Can it access a file without spinning up all disks in the array?

        I haven’t used ZFS in like a decade, but would strongly consider going back to it if it can do that now.