January 3, 20179 yr I would love to see file compression added to unRAID, either on a per-share, per-disk or even better per-file-type basis. I see that unRAID supports BTRFS which in turn supports compression already, would it be possible to enable this in a future build? BTRFS compression: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression My personal use case is that I'm a commercial photographer and shoot around 50,000 RAW (ARW) images each year which I store on my unRAID server, these files are mostly full of air and compress by a factor 3:1 or more. I currently have around 18TB of these files which with compression would use ~6TB of space, this would save me a fortune in storage costs and I suspect would actually speed up read/write operations as there would be less data to read/written on the array disks.
February 6, 20179 yr +1. I'd really appreciate this feature as well. Snapshotting would be awesome as well, but built in BTRFS compression options would be excellent for my school papers and other highly compressible objects.
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