Are there any plans to include mergerfs and snapraid so we can mix drive sizes luke in UNRAID? Thats the biggest thing missing in y opinion. Would love to vbe able to pool mixed drive sizes together and create parity via snapraid.
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Hi, why do you want this feature since we have JBOD in the upcoming 1.4.2? Would you please tell us how you will use Mergerfs and SnapRAID in the real world/your workflow? And why are they irreplaceable? Thanks for your response. They are important for us to define our OS.
The biggest people reason want snapraid is the ability to use different sized disks AND have some level of protection - i looked at (read up on) it, it really is quite clever how they handle implicit parity without distributing parity in the traditional way
not sure i will ever use it - but i think a lot in the consumer space will - also its a premade ready to go solution that just needs some nice UI around it
you could be waiting a long time for the ZFS additions that will allow dissimilar disk sizes
also i think a lot of people mean different things by JBOD
i was there when the term was coined (pre 2000) and it just meant disks with no hardware raid and each disk had separate FS
however (and much to my displeasure) 
JBOD now means to people not RAID and not ZFS but a single filesystem on top - this is what mergefs provides (i.e. don’t make regular folks have to know about drives, mount points, and combine into one apparent file system)
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