A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci

Jupiter Extras

English - October 31, 2019 18:00 - 50 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
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Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux, and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint. It is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices, it is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.
mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives. mergerfs transparently translates read/write commands to the underlying drives from a single mount point, such as /mnt/storage. Point all your applications at /mnt/storage and forget about how the underlying storage is architected, mergerfs handles the rest transparently. Multiple mismatched size drives? No problem. Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.

mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives. mergerfs transparently translates read/write commands to the underlying drives from a single mount point, such as /mnt/storage. Point all your applications at /mnt/storage and forget about how the underlying storage is architected, mergerfs handles the rest transparently. Multiple mismatched size drives? No problem.

Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.

Links:

The Perfect Media Server 2017 Mergerfs - another good option to pool your SnapRAID disks mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem