denywinarto Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I was looking for a solution to get past windows' 26 letter limitation for shortcut then i read about dfs. Any known problem using both dfs and drivepool? I read this and was wondered about the bug status now http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/comment/888/ Also..anyone know if dfs the best way if we want to work with kodi and more than 26 drive letters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Spider99 Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 You can mount the drives to a folder in windows and remove the drive letter for you data drives i have 33 drives in one machine but only four drive letters in use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 denywinarto Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 You can mount the drives to a folder in windows and remove the drive letter for you data drives i have 33 drives in one machine but only four drive letters in use I'm accessing the library from another machine using Kodi, I'd thought Kodi can only see driveletters, i read in their forum it could also read UNC paths, guess gotta give it a try first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Spider99 Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 the share can have a drive letter - so kodi can see it - which would be your pool drive letter all the data disks dont need drive letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 I was looking for a solution to get past windows' 26 letter limitation for shortcut then i read about dfs. Any known problem using both dfs and drivepool? I read this and was wondered about the bug status now http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/comment/888/ Also..anyone know if dfs the best way if we want to work with kodi and more than 26 drive letters? DFS doesn't work on the pool. This is due to a number of reasons. Specifically, DFS requires advanced file system features such as Quota support and USN Journalling. These are not supported on the pool, because of how the driver itself works (they're NTFS "objects", much like files, and since no actual files exist "on" the pool...) I'm accessing the library from another machine using Kodi, I'd thought Kodi can only see driveletters, i read in their forum it could also read UNC paths, guess gotta give it a try first I used to do the same. Kodi has no problem with Windows File Shares (SMB/Samba/CIFS). So you can do that from the pool, without a problem. And as for the drive letter limitation, DrivePool doesn't actually use them. So you can remove the drive letters for the pool drives, if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I was looking for a solution to get past windows' 26 letter limitation for shortcut then i read about dfs.
Any known problem using both dfs and drivepool?
I read this and was wondered about the bug status now
http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/comment/888/
Also..anyone know if dfs the best way if we want to work with kodi and more than 26 drive letters?
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