trapexit/mergerfs
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a featureful union filesystem
16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 5 stories, 11 comments · first 2019-11-19 · latest 2025-12-01
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…all of them and ended up with something I'm really happy with: * https://perfectmediaserver.com * https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/master/mkdocs/docs... * https://blog.muffn.io/posts/muffins-awesome-nas-stack/ *…
comment by QuiEgo · 2025-12-01 · in Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy -
…I use a mover script that runs nightly with the SnapRAID sync/scrub to keep space on the SSDs open. https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/master/tools/merge...
comment by QuiEgo · 2025-12-01 · in Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy -
https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/master/mkdocs/docs... I do this. One mergerfs mount with an ssd and three hdds made to look like one disk. Mergerfs is set to write to the ssd if it’s not full, and read from the ssd first. A chron…
comment by QuiEgo · 2025-07-04 · in Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip -
- mergerfs: https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs - snapraid Not used either but these were 2 options that came up when I was researching few years ago.
comment by vin047 · 2025-04-22 · in Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move -
…them. The fact that it tends to help my professional growth out at the same time is a bonus. [0]: https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs [1]: https://www.snapraid.it [2]: https://wiki.servarr.com [3]: https://github.com/stephanGarland/packer-…
comment by sgarland · 2023-09-17 · in The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021) -
…make more sense for me, so maybe that's something I'll change next time I need to touch it. [1] https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs [2] https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs#policy-descriptions
comment by gregmac · 2023-08-20 · in OpenZFS – add disks to existing RAIDZ -
…https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2022/10/28/my-home-nas-setup... [2] https://www.snapraid.it/ [3] https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs
comment by ggeorgovassilis · 2022-11-02 · in Better than Netflix: Jellyfin on my NAS -
…remove drives/directories willy-nilly. It's been stable for me for the past 3 years, it just works. https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs https://github.com/amadvance/snapraid/
comment by recov · 2022-04-03 · in What Is Unraid? -
…/b, because the default policy for unlink call would be "epall" (existing path, apply to all). [0] https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs#policy-descriptions
comment by karlicoss · 2022-01-09 · in Show HN: MergerFS – A Featureful Union Filesystem -
…which provide different algorithms for choosing a branch to apply a particular function to. https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs#policy-descriptions
comment by _trapexit · 2019-11-19 · in How Containers Work: Overlayfs