So it’s like SnapRaid and MergerFS. Got it. Thanks
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tiramichu@lemm.ee 9 months agoThe clue with Unraid is in the name, the goal was originally all about having a fileserver with many of the benefits of RAID without actually needing RAID and the headaches that cone with it.
For this purpose, Fuse is a software implementation which is part of the Unraid OS which brings together files from multiple physical disks into a single view.
Each disk in an Unraid system just uses a normal single-disk filesystem on the disk itself, and Unraid distributes new files to whichever disk has space, yet to the user they are presented as a single volume (you can also see raw disk contents and manually move data between disks if you want to - the fused view and raw views are just different mounts in the filesystem)
This is how Unraid allows for easily adding new drives of any size without a rebuild, but still allows for failure of a single disk by having a parity disk - as long as the parity is at least as large as the biggest data disk.
Unraid have also now added ZFS zpool capability and as a user you have the choice over which sort of array you want - Unraid or ZFS.
Unraid is absolutely not targeted at enterprise where a full RAID makes more sense. It’s targeted at homelabusers where the ease if operation and ability to expand over time are selling points.
peregus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
papertowels@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Not sure if it’s obvious from this comment, but also worth pointing out to folks learning about unraid that it still has parity drives that let you recover from disk failures - it’s not just JBOD.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yup, my comment mentions the parity disk :)
papertowels@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Bruh my reading comprehension…