Soon™️ 6.12 Series

[ConnerVT]

Any insight on how Soon™ until we will see 6.12.4?

[SpencerJ]

53 minutes ago, ConnerVT said:

Any insight on how Soon™ until we will see 6.12.4?

 
close. Next week would be my guess 👀   *rc

[jonathanselye]

Hi! when is the earliest version we will be able to raid0 xfs on pool devices?

Thanks!

[Kilrah]

XFS doesn't have RAID features, and unraid doesn't provide software RAID outside of the filesystem's own options.

I.e. don't expect that to ever happen.

Edited August 30, 2023 by Kilrah

[aniel]

On 8/18/2023 at 8:47 PM, SpencerJ said:

 
close. Next week would be my guess 👀   *rc

when are we getting 6.13/ multi array support?

[JonathanM]

3 hours ago, aniel said:

when are we getting 6.13/ multi array support?

Soon™

[aniel]

1 hour ago, JonathanM said:

Soon™

so u dont know a ETA and/or u just joking around?

[ChatNoir]

33 minutes ago, aniel said:

so u dont know a ETA and/or u just joking around?

Limetech never provides ETA and Soon™ has often the answer provided in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way by the team.

It has rubbed on many long time users.  

[kulkoff]

Any update on multiple arrays? I'm thinking about building a second server. If i could do multiple arrays I could just add an expansion to the current one instead.

[criminal-auctioneer8616]

On 1/11/2023 at 4:39 PM, limetech said:

BTW we could add ext4 but no one has really asked for that

I'd like to ask for EXT4 support.

[itimpi]

8 hours ago, criminal-auctioneer8616 said:

I'd like to ask for EXT4 support.

What do you think it will add to have ext4 support in the array/pools?    You can already read/write ext4 via Unassigned Devices.

[criminal-auctioneer8616]

3 hours ago, itimpi said:

What do you think it will add to have ext4 support in the array/pools?    You can already read/write ext4 via Unassigned Devices.

Better small file performance, less resource usage/overhead for those of us that don't have expensive servers to host UnRAID on, more robust toolset for recovery and maintenance, and this last one isn't anything technical, but just the trust in a filesystem that's been around forever.

[itimpi]

13 minutes ago, criminal-auctioneer8616 said:

Better small file performance, less resource usage/overhead for those of us that don't have expensive servers to host UnRAID on, more robust toolset for recovery and maintenance, and this last one isn't anything technical, but just the trust in a filesystem that's been around forever.

I thought that XFS would tick all these boxes, and it has been around forever as well.

[criminal-auctioneer8616]

5 minutes ago, itimpi said:

I thought that XFS would tick all these boxes, and it has been around forever as well.

XFS ticks most of those things yes, but it is definitely not as good with smaller files. I appreciate that XFS has more features than EXT4, but EXT4 is quite lighter on the system and not everyone uses/needs those features.

 

Perhaps it does just come down to trusting the familiar, which I don't think I'm alone in that thought, but I feel that having the choice of just a "basic" filesystem still has its use cases.

[dada051]

On 11/25/2023 at 3:30 PM, criminal-auctioneer8616 said:

XFS ticks most of those things yes, but it is definitely not as good with smaller files. I appreciate that XFS has more features than EXT4, but EXT4 is quite lighter on the system and not everyone uses/needs those features.

 

Perhaps it does just come down to trusting the familiar, which I don't think I'm alone in that thought, but I feel that having the choice of just a "basic" filesystem still has its use cases.

I don't see any advantage of adding ext4 (con: another choice adds questions).

[ChatNoir]

The question is "how is ext4 handling errors, FS corruption, etc." ?

As dada051 says, its one more option. Certainly people will choose it and might have problems if its less reliable or less capable of recovery.

[dopeytree]

I thought linux folks were choosing btrfs over ext4...

 

 

Though not sure if unraid allows btrfs compression.

 

 

[primeval_god]

1 hour ago, dopeytree said:

Though not sure if unraid allows btrfs compression.

It does

[criminal-auctioneer8616]

10 hours ago, dopeytree said:

I thought linux folks were choosing btrfs over ext4...

 

 

Though not sure if unraid allows btrfs compression.

 

 

That thread also points out why EXT4 is used as default on many linuxes, and BTRFS is not.

[JorgeB]

10 hours ago, criminal-auctioneer8616 said:

That thread also points out why EXT4 is used as default on many linuxes, and BTRFS is not.

Suggest you create a feature request asking or ext4 support and making a case why you'd like to have it, LT may be open to add a new fs as an XFS alternative, in part since reiser is going to be removed sooner or later.

[jonathanselye]

any update on 6.13?