I am in the process of evaluating DrivePool as a replacement to the Windows RAID mirroring. One of the problems that I've run into revolves around the fact that I can not longer use the OneDrive Files on Demand feature when the OneDrive folder is located in a drive pool. This is consistent with feedback that I've seen in the reddit community in which other users have stated that they have the same issue.
This is a deal-breaker for me - I use multiple machines and sparse files allow for me to access these files without storing them locally on my drive configuration. With Windows RAID, it worked without issues as you can imagine. My main focus around using DrivePool is to have a redundant copy of data in case of a drive failure so the other use cases of DrivePool, such as SSD caching and multi-drive configurations are not as useful to me as having the ability to support sparse files with OneDrive.
Is this a known issue? Is there any plans to add support for this capability? I'd appreciate any input on this topic so I can make a decision on what my path forward is for my use case.
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I am in the process of evaluating DrivePool as a replacement to the Windows RAID mirroring. One of the problems that I've run into revolves around the fact that I can not longer use the OneDrive Files on Demand feature when the OneDrive folder is located in a drive pool. This is consistent with feedback that I've seen in the reddit community in which other users have stated that they have the same issue.
This is a deal-breaker for me - I use multiple machines and sparse files allow for me to access these files without storing them locally on my drive configuration. With Windows RAID, it worked without issues as you can imagine. My main focus around using DrivePool is to have a redundant copy of data in case of a drive failure so the other use cases of DrivePool, such as SSD caching and multi-drive configurations are not as useful to me as having the ability to support sparse files with OneDrive.
Is this a known issue? Is there any plans to add support for this capability? I'd appreciate any input on this topic so I can make a decision on what my path forward is for my use case.
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