miketew

yeah, I have no interest in expansion requiring 2 disks for the size of 1 each time 😛 but I was not aware ZFS was that far along with expansion officially, that's awesome.

in this case, unraid's ZFS plugin essentially renders part of unraid's draw (mix and match disks) somewhat moot, as it behaves just like a normal ZFS zpool with the inability to scale out or scale up. is that right?

A couple thoughts... maybe I'm missing something. Isn't SnapRAID essentially the same concept as Unraid - parity calculated "externally" - Unraid does it at runtime, SnapRAID does it on request, but neither provides bitrot protection via detection. Simply by restoration (if I detect a file has become corrupted, I can restore from parity) Also would be very curious how ZFS gets introduced, instead of XFS or BTRFS for a disk's filesystem, it would be simply a single disk zvol? I would expect performance could be more affected then. Also, seems like the only benefit there would be help detecting bitrot happening (which is a good thing)