Unraid flexible expandability with TrueNAS ZFS anti-bit-rot?

[truenasfan]

I recently learned that Unraid doesn't actually protect against bit-rot. I love the concept behind Unraid of being able to essentially infinitely grow and expand the array in a somewhat arbitrary manner, but the bit-rot situation just punched me in the gut and sent me running towards TrueNAS SCALE.

It seems like ideally a good filesystem (like ZFS) could be used on each disk, scrubbed regularly and then the system continue to offer this freeform scalability. BTRFS doesn't seem as safe and there are too many horror stories.

To be honest, SnapRAID (https://www.snapraid.it/compare) seems as though it could be used in conjunction with ZFS and the great interface of TrueNAS SCALE to help make this really shine.

With the new path of TrueNAS SCALE, it seems like this concept that Unraid has taken advantage of for so long would really fit in well!

Couple that with ZFS scrubbing and silent corruption protection, it would be a no brainer and I think folks would jump ship on Unraid en masse.

One reason this seems pretty darn attractive is for scenarios such as Chia farming and other scenarios. It really opens up the demographics.

 

[sretalla]

Have a look at the concept here:

Is it safe to install missing dependencies to the underlying OS for an application I wish to run (Autotier)?

Hey all, I am running the current version of TNS Beta, and I was wanting to install a data tiering application (Autotier) that monitors the mount locations you specify (ex. /mnt/ssd/data/ and /mnt/hdd/data/) file activity and will move files between them depending on usage, while presenting...

www.truenas.com

Autotier and/or glusterfs could sort-of go in the direction that you're talking about by aggregating multiple locations into one (virtual pool of sorts).

Be aware that most of the builtin services and functions won't know anything about what you're doing and may completely refuse to work with such a thing though, so you'd be way off-piste and totally without support for now.