Show HN: MergerFS – A Featureful Union Filesystem

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  • mergerfs

    a featureful union filesystem

  • Cool tool, but recommend reading the policies [0] section carefully, it did catch me off guard the first time I tried using it.

    E.g. say you have /a/foo.txt and /b/foo.txt, and you run mergerfs /a:/b /merged

    Now if you print or modify /merged/foo.txt, it would access /a/foo.txt because the default policy for file access is ff (first-found, as defined during the mount).

    However, if you run "rm /merged/foo.txt", it would delete it from both /a and /b, because the default policy for unlink call would be "epall" (existing path, apply to all).

    [0] https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs#policy-descriptions

  • docker-mergerfs

    https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs in docker

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  • snapraid

    A backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures

  • If you find this interesting then you might also be interested in SnapRAID: https://www.snapraid.it/

    > SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.

    > SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a lot of big files that rarely change.

    > If the failed disks are too many to allow a recovery, you lose the data only on the failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe.

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