Recently I’ve begun listening to the Self-Hosted podcast. One of the hosts, Alex, is a huge fan of MergerFS. He’s written about it a few times as the “Perfect Media Server” solution. You can here him talk about it here or read one of his write ups herehere and here. For the record he does also really like ZFS, but his write up of MergerFS and SnapRAID intrigued me for 2 reasons: The ability to increase the size of the data array easily after you’ve already created it. The ability to...
