Comment by trapexit on "(MergerFS + SnapRAID) is the new RAID 5"

Few comments:

1) The default policy for create functions is epmfs not mfs. So you might not get the behavior you expect.

2) defaults,allow_other,use_ino,hard_remove... defaults and hard_remove are both unnecessary (though harmless). You can see the official docs for a suggested default. In a future release use_ino will also be unnecessary.

3) Using the package from your distro is going to give you a reasonably outdated version. You can find packages I built of the latest releases on the github releases page.

Hi trapexit,

This is an honour to have MergerFS' author writing the first comment ever on my blog. 🙏 Thank you for your work on MergerFS, it is really useful to a lot of people.

I updated my article according to your useful commentaries and changed my create policy to pfrd because I want data to be spread across the drives.

Regardless the distro package used, my Ubuntu 22.04LTS gives me the version 2.33.3-1 which is indeed outdated(1 year old). The problem here is practicality (and laziness). Indeed by installing the Github version, I will have an up-to-date version but I will have to pay attention to all future updates and do it manually. Did you consider having your own PPA to distribute the package, so people can enjoy automatic updates with up to date code, at least for ?

Yes, I've considered a PPA but auto updating software like mergerfs that can break a system if I screw up and introduce a bug is not something I really want to take responsibility for. I could keep it a bit out of date I guess to help lessen the likelihood.

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