Has anyone messed around with NonRAID? (github.com)
from nickiam2@aussie.zone to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 01:09
https://aussie.zone/post/25841020

I just found this project by browsing the mergerfs documentation. It claims to be an opensource fork of the Unraid software that makes it so flexible. The documentation isn’t great, but has all the basic info to get going. It works kinda like Snapraid in that each disk has it’s own filesystem and parity is calculated across all of the drives, but it happens in real time (unlike with snapraid).

Thoughts? comments? Would you trust this with important data?

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curbstickle@anarchist.nexus on 19 Oct 02:04 next collapse

Warning

☢️ This is an early-stage project, and while the driver and nmdctl management tool have been tested in both virtualized environments and some physical setups, data loss is still a possibility. This is mainly intended for DIY enthusiasts comfortable with Linux command line usage.

Use at your own risk, and always have backups!

No, I would not trust it with important data.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 19 Oct 05:44 collapse

Yeah yeah yeah but ignoring that… Would you?

anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz on 19 Oct 06:02 next collapse

What is the gain compared to running something battle tested like zfs or mdraid?

dont@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 06:32 collapse

The selling point of unraid is that you can mix and match different disk sizes and it figures out a (good, efficient?) way to handle them even as you grow a pool. You’re not going to have a good time with a 1TB drive, a 2 TB drive and a 15 TB drive using zfs, unraid doesn’t care… (Using and preferring zfs myself, by the way; this is heresay.)

anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz on 19 Oct 06:47 next collapse

Ah, I can see the appeal but it’s not for me then. :)

ClickyMcTicker@hachyderm.io on 19 Oct 07:35 next collapse

@dont @anamethatisnt What’s the advantage over single node Ceph, then?

nickiam2@aussie.zone on 19 Oct 20:25 next collapse

Another benefit is if you lose your all parity disks and a data disk, you can still access the filesystem on the other data disks. So if the array fails, you don’t lose all the data, just the 1 (failed) disk worth of files.

lime_red@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 21:54 collapse

ZFS AnyRaid soon?

dont@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 13:03 collapse

How long did it take to get zpool-attach? I will not join the waiting list 😉

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 19 Oct 06:06 collapse

Cool idea!

But why would I use it? What advantage does I give me over traditional MD? The opportunity to use different filesystems on different disks? Or hot-add already formatted disks? I don’t really get it.