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  • trapexit/mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem

    mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

    FEATURES

    • Configurable behaviors / file placement
    • Ability to add or remove filesystems at will
    • Resistance to individual filesystem failure
    • Support for extended attributes (xattrs)
    • Support for file attributes (chattr)
    • Runtime configurable (via xattrs)
    • Works with heterogeneous filesystem types
    • Moving of file when filesystem runs out of space while writing
    • Ignore read-only filesystems when creating files
    • Turn read-only files into symlinks to underlying file
    • Hard link copy-on-write / CoW
    • Support for POSIX ACLs
    • Misc other things

    HOW IT WORKS mergerfs logically merges multiple paths together. Think a union of sets. The file/s or directory/s acted on or presented through mergerfs are based on the policy chosen for that particular action.

    https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs

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