Mergerfs and SnapRAID support in ZimaOS

Operating System ZimaOS
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I’d have ZimaOS raised to 3rd place hands down, where it would be only after unRAID and TrueNAS. The amount of people that would ditch their Windows drivepool builds to ZimaOS would be off the charts, myself included, because we’d finally get integrated checksum and snapshots at the file system level without either (a) losing data multiple times to learn all the TrueNAS lessons or (b) breaking the bank with U$250 licensing costs.

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I believe you summed it up really well.
Native MergerFS + SnapRAID-style pooling would make ZimaOS extremely competitive for mixed-drive media storage. The combo of flexible pools, parity, and snapshots at the FS level would bring a huge number of Windows DrivePool / OMV users across, without the cost or learning curve of TrueNAS or UNRAID.

And it’s great to see how active the community is and how accommodating the Zima team have been. Totally agree this would unlock a massive audience.

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agreeing on all points here.

imo the hardest part is to keep the simplicity without adding complexity.

i‘m afraid, that at e.g. v2.0 the user will be indirectly forced to either buy Zima-Hardware or at some point has to decide between Unraid and ZimaOS (for his 3rd party HW).

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Yup, that’s the actual challenge.

Tagging @Zima-Giorgio to evaluate the possibilities of implementing this. I’d go full survival mode and bumping this into P0 internally granted the sheer potential this would unlock.

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Hey guys, thanks for your feedback. We will take your suggestions into consideration.

Hi, @dropn9ne , rest assured. User won’t be forced to buy Zima-Hardware before and after v2.0, period. We are making ZimaOS a general NAS OS now.

Hi, @vipper_666 , I have forwarded the posts here to the team. And the team will reconsider it regarding your feedback.

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snapraid +1

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I am hoping this happens at some point. Because of the lack of parity for a jbod setup i run ZimaOS for all my apps but run OMV on my nas to get ther mergerfs + SNAPRAID setup. Would much rather be able to run one system.

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