mergerfs

Name: mergerfs
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

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...

Free • Open Source
File Manager
Linux

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What is mergerfs?

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• 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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skobkin

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Top positive comment• ago

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• ago

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mhddfs

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POX added mergerfs as alternative(s) to OpenZFS
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skobkin added Overlay filesystem as a feature to mergerfs
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endolith added mergerfs as alternative(s) to btrfs
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