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    mergerfs

    mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifing storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

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    What is mergerfs?

    FEATURES

    • Runs in userspace (FUSE)
    • Configurable behaviors
    • Support for extended attributes (xattrs)
    • Support for file attributes (chattr)
    • Runtime configurable (via xattrs)
    • Safe to run as root
    • Opportunistic credential caching
    • Works with heterogeneous filesystem types
    • Handling of writes to full drives
    • Handles pool of readonly and read/write drives
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    • Top positive comment  about 3 years ago • 0 replies
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    It's good for merging several filesystems from different disks without using LVM or RAID. Moved from mhddfs to mergerfs because of frequent segfaults.

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    skobkin It does the same thing as mergerfs but with better flexibility and more features. It also more stable.
    Positive comment • almost 2 years ago • as an alternative to  
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    Categories

    Backup & Sync • File Management

    Tags

    • digital-media-storage
    • storage-pool
    • pool
    • hard-drive
    • storage-system
    • drive-manager
    • raid
    • storage-pooling
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     Official Website
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    Summary

    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about mergerfs, and it has gotten 3 likes

    • Open Source and Free product.
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    mergerfs was added to AlternativeTo by endolith on Apr 23, 2016 and this page was last updated Nov 11, 2021.

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