DavidRas

I have been in the IT industry long enough to know that unexpected crashes do happen for numerous reasons. But that aside, my main reason for starting this topic was to get input regarding whether or not changing the file system type on my Unraid server in an attempt to avoid lengthy parity checks is worth it.

The cause of the crashes was Immich. I have been trying to get it to work over the past couple of weeks, but it crashes my server when it tries to import my rather large photo collection. This in turn, caused lengthy parity checks each time it crashed. So, I'm no longer pursuing that and have removed it from my server. And as much as I like Unraid, the lengthy parity checks can be rather inconvenient when a crash happens unexpectedly. So now I'm considering converting to ZFS (RAIDZ1 perhaps) to avoid these party checks. I'm not concerned about having to rebuild the server from scratch. Any thoughts on this? Suggestions? Recommendations? Concerns? Is it worth it to migrate to ZFS? Thanks...

Good evening Everyone, One of my Unraid servers has an array comprised of 4 3TB disks and a 3TB parity disk. When something causes my server to crash, In this case, Immich, it takes approximately 8 hrs for my parity check to complete. Would switching to the ZFS file system avoid the parity check? I'm thinking , yes. If so, what is the best way to proceed without having to rebuild the server from scratch?