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So happy to have found DrivePool!


johansch

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I remember thinking maybe ten years ago (after my first mdadm disaster) that what I really wanted was something that created a union of multiple standard filesystems and presented it as one file system to my desktop OS (which at the time was Linux). My thought was that I would build this in user space using FUSE and some homebrew TCP protocol + various user space clients for different OS:es (hey Covecube, maybe that part is still a good idea?). And then perhaps configurable levels of duplication per directory. (But that seemed complicated and way more work than what I was willing to do for just me to use...)

 

And now I finally find this solution, already built and polished, for the OS I currently use. And it's only 30 USD. I would probably have to spend at least a week to build a very minimum thing that just worked for me and was super crappy in terms of UX, and probably didn¨t any rebalancing at all. So.. yeah, based on what I have seen so far buying this saves me a lot of money/time. :) 

 

Cheers, you guys have totally made my day.

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We're glad to hear it! 

 

As for the multiple OS support, that's the tricky one. We'd really need to rewrite the driver and service from the ground up for the different OS's, and probably maintain them separately (which shared modules).  So, this would be a LOT of work.  

 

The problem with that is that we are a very small company (just Alex and myself, right now, alex being the dev and myself as customer service/tech support).   So, even if we really, really wanted to do this, it's not a small investment of time/money.  

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Then again, the OP apparantly can build a rough simple version in just a week so perhaps a second developer can be hired soon? :D

 

 

Well, to be honest, this is "relatively simple".  There are plenty of frameworks out there to do this.

 

https://dokan-dev.github.io/

https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp

 

And Microsoft's User Mode Driver Framework:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework

 

And there are "file system in a box" kits.

Eldos offers such, and Drive Bender actually uses this, IIRC.

https://www.eldos.com/

Specifically: http://www.callbacktechnologies.com/

 

 

The problem is that our software is written in C/C++ and C#.  It's also heavily proprietary.  

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