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mergerfs vs Unraid

A side-by-side look at mergerfs and Unraid. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

mergerfs

mergerfs

File Management

mergerfs is an open source union file system for Linux, allowing you to combine multiple directories into a single virtual filesystem. It supports permissions, CoW, Directories, Extended attributes, etc.

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Unraid

Unraid

System & Hardware

Unraid is an operating system optimized for media storage and servers. It supports combining hard drives of different sizes into a single storage pool, parity-based data protection, on-the-fly disk encryption, and Docker containers.

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