A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci
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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.
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- 0:00 Intro
- 3:19 Introducing Antonio AKA Trapexit
- 5:13 Limitations in MergerFS
- 7:05 Create Policies
- 12:13 MergerFS Tools
- 18:26 <3 Documentation
- 24:23 Defining Hardware Requirements
- 29:07 Motivations for Creating MergerFS
- 32:24 Antonio's Home Server
- 38:11 Could MergerFS Support Snapshots as a Feature?
- 40:29 File Structures Underneath MergerFS
- 44:33 MergerFS is not RAID
- 49:38 Outro
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