[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2017-06-06T19:28:18Z" content=""" Lack of support for hard links does not make git-annex enable crippled filesystem mode. Lack of support for either symlinks or unix permissions are the only things that cause that. I assume that you've checked that you can create symlinks on the UnRaid. Unix permissions may *seem* to work, eg they can be set. However, git-annex checks if they *actually* work, by creating a file, removing the write bit, and trying to write to it. If the write succeeds, the filesystem is not actually honoring permissions. Using git-annex in indirect mode with such a filesystem can result in data loss. For example: git annex add foo git commit foo -m added echo corrupt > foo Here the echo follows the symlink to the single copy of the file in .git/annex/objects/ and ignoring the permissions that don't allow writing it it, overwrites it with other data. `git annex fsck` will then tell you that you've lost the old content of the file. So, I don't recommend trying to bypass git-annex's check for crippled filesystems. """]]