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submitted 2 weeks ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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

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[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks 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…

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't work for every use case, but perfect for mine. I was just pointing out other options.

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

And that is good! It would have been a better answer if you mentioned these major limitations as well so that interested people don’t need to look it up :)

[-] MangoPenguin 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It has no parity, you can pair with snapraid but thats snapshot parity and not real-time parity. Depends on the use case if that would work or not.

Also no caching options.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Valid points. I use it for my media collection I can easily restore and won't miss. Cache would be sort of nice to have and redundancy would just be wasting space.

[-] MangoPenguin 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah media is a good use case for it, and doesnt really need cache either.

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