DrivePool and Google Cloud Products

[Alan]

Just wondering if anyone knows of issues, or has had bad experiences running Drive pool and Google Drive/Music/Picasa on a Windows 7 machine, sharing folders on the pooled drives?

 

I had such an installation and had many problems ranging from slow speeds, freezing on the shutdown screen and failure to boot up. No specific error messages though.

 

Admittedly, there could easily have been other issues going on, and I'm not specifically suggesting that the products mentioned were the cause of my problems.

 

Long story short, I reinstalled Drivepool on a Windows 7 box and things are running smoothly. I'm now at the point that I want to set up Google Play Music, Google Drive, and Picasa so that I can get an online sync of specific folders.

 

Any known issues, or anecdotal comments would be useful.

 

I have seen the log regarding Google Drive and DrivePool on a WHS 2011 machine but since that's a different OS, it may be unrelated.

 

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[Christopher (Drashna)]

I know that Google Drive has issues with DrivePool. I've tried it on Server 2012 and Windows 8, and both places, it fails.

 

It is a known issue, and it is on the "to do" list.

[Alan]

Are the issues related to running locally on the same system? Do you expect the same issue to arise if I ran Google drive on a different system pointing to a mapped network/pooled drive?

 

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[Christopher (Drashna)]

It only has issues running directly on the pool. If it's running on the same system, but not on the pool, then it works 100% fine.

 

And I'm not sure that it supports using network locations, nor had I tested that out.

[Alan]

OK, just to check my understanding:

1. If GD is installed on a non pooled system drive, sharing a non pooled directory with cloud - no problem.

2. If GD is installed on a non pooled drive, sharing a pooled directory - problem.

 

Right?

 

Although no one has said as much, there could be similar problems with Picasa and Google Play Music.

 

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[Christopher (Drashna)]

Yes.

 

Google Drive has issues accessing the Pooled file system.

Which is odd, because other utilities don't have the issue. So unless it's relying on some very special file system commands, or VSS....

 

And since Picasa and Google Play Music are both from Google, and probably use the same code, it's a good bet that they'll have issues as well. I haven't tested them personally though.