Please excuse me if this is a stupid question but I've been searching for quite a while for an answer and I haven't come up with anything concrete. One of the reasons I chose Unraid for my home setup is that if some kind of unforeseen failure occurs you can always pull your array drives out and read them individually in another machine, as long as the drives are physically okay you will get your data back. I am currently using reiserFS and I wanted to switch to XFS for, at the very least, the bit rot protection it is supposed to provide but, my question is...  Will I be loosing the ability to "easily" read an individual drive should a failure occur? Again I apologize if this is an obvious but I haven't found an answer on these forums or have not thought of the correct search terms when looking.

 

TIA!

Uproden...

ReiserFS is being dropped from more and more things as time goes on.  So even if it is readable more widely now the situation will only reverse in the future.

 

BitRot:  I thought it was BTRFS that had BitRot protection - NOT XFS.  Am I wrong?

I thought I had read that XFS has bitrot protection but I could be wrong. I would really like to know if it's possibly / easy to read a single XFS drive outside of the array. Does anybody know? Guess I could bring up a test server and test it all out, I just figured asking on here would save time.

You can definitely read a single unRAID drive, regardless of the filesystem, outside the array. The question is what OS do you want to read it in?