Dexter Kane

Syncing an empty directory is the same as syncing after deleting files, if something goes wrong and you have enough parity then you won't lose any data. If you remove a full disk then you have to recalculate the parity which means you have no protection if something goes wrong.

I am running out of room on the parity disks, but I'm also interested if there is a performance difference between ext4 and xfs in snapraid

I'm currently using ext4 but with the default options and not the recommended ones so will probably reformat at some point. Should I stick with ext4 or use something else like XFS instead?

I'd say fix. That way, while you won't be able to repair it, it will detect any corrupt...

I'm guessing there's not a way to tell snapraid to ignore that?

Yes, I used btrfs-convert to convert the disk. I guess that must be what it is. I...

I currently have an array of 14 disks which all use ext4 but I want to convert them...

This is using snapraid 9.1 on an intel avoton c2750 snapraid v9.1 by Andrea Mazzoleni,...