Hi folks -- haven't seen Andrea post here in a while, and the latest SnapRAID release (11.5) has been around for a few months. No real complains from my end -- everything has been working great for many years here, just wondering if Andrea made any statements in the recent past as to whether he is stepping back a bit and perhaps concentrating less on actively maintaining SnapRAID. Or maybe SnapRAID has reached a level of maturity that, for the time being, no changes are necessary.
If he is taking a bit more personal time, it's obviously well deserved.
Thanks!
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I agree for the most part, SnapRAID is very mature and does everything I need now.
But there's a few things that would still be nice to have:
1. The ability to continue doing syncs even when a parity drive fails. Right now, if my first parity drive fails, I'll have two additional parity drives. But I won't be able to do another sync until I replace and rebuild parity #1, which endangers my new data for that time-period. This has happened twice already. I can't comment out the first parity drive and continue using 2-parity and 3-parity while I get a new drive shipped to me.
2. The ability to automatically create split-parity when you add a new parity drive. What I'd love is for it to create parity in 5TB blocks. That way if my 16TB parity drive starts to fail, I can copy the files to a stack of extra 5TB drives I have and not rebuild the whole thing.
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Hi folks -- haven't seen Andrea post here in a while, and the latest SnapRAID release (11.5) has been around for a few months. No real complains from my end -- everything has been working great for many years here, just wondering if Andrea made any statements in the recent past as to whether he is stepping back a bit and perhaps concentrating less on actively maintaining SnapRAID. Or maybe SnapRAID has reached a level of maturity that, for the time being, no changes are necessary.
If he is taking a bit more personal time, it's obviously well deserved.
Thanks!
Hi cannondale0815,
The second you said. SnapRAID does what it's supposed to do, no changes necessary for the time being.
Ciao,
Andrea
I agree for the most part, SnapRAID is very mature and does everything I need now.
But there's a few things that would still be nice to have:
1. The ability to continue doing syncs even when a parity drive fails. Right now, if my first parity drive fails, I'll have two additional parity drives. But I won't be able to do another sync until I replace and rebuild parity #1, which endangers my new data for that time-period. This has happened twice already. I can't comment out the first parity drive and continue using 2-parity and 3-parity while I get a new drive shipped to me.
2. The ability to automatically create split-parity when you add a new parity drive. What I'd love is for it to create parity in 5TB blocks. That way if my 16TB parity drive starts to fail, I can copy the files to a stack of extra 5TB drives I have and not rebuild the whole thing.