I have a rather large pool with 2X duplication on a large part of it and I have one drive in the pool that I want to be sure that one copy of the duplicated files from a particular folder is always stored on that physical drive.
That is I have these drives in the pool: (paired down from reality for brevity)
D:
E:
F:
G:
H:
and the pool is mapped to X:
Under X I have folders:
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
and 2X duplication is on for all those folders.
I want to be sure that at least one copy of all the files and folders from F1 are stored on H:
I do not care what the distribution of the other folders are and I do not care where the second copy of the files from F1 reside.
I think what I want to do is possible but for the life of me I cannot seem to reason it out in such a way that I am sure that what I want is possible.
When files are initially written into F1 I do not much care where the first copy gets stored as long as, when duplication is complete, one copy is stored on H: in its PoolPart folder.
The reason I need this is complex but suffice to say that I have a program that REALLY does not reliably read from the pool but does read fine from a physical disk.
There is another solution where I keep the directory outside the pool but that would complicate other things.
I am hoping there is something in the balancing/file placement rules or settings that would allow me to do as I want.
Note: F1 is never more than about 10% of the size of H: and its files are dynamic but, as I said, it does not matter where the first copy gets placed as long as one copy ends up on H: after duplication completes. Also currently the pool is only about 75% full.
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I have a rather large pool with 2X duplication on a large part of it and I have one drive in the pool that I want to be sure that one copy of the duplicated files from a particular folder is always stored on that physical drive.
That is I have these drives in the pool: (paired down from reality for brevity)
D:
E:
F:
G:
H:
and the pool is mapped to X:
Under X I have folders:
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
and 2X duplication is on for all those folders.
I want to be sure that at least one copy of all the files and folders from F1 are stored on H:
I do not care what the distribution of the other folders are and I do not care where the second copy of the files from F1 reside.
I think what I want to do is possible but for the life of me I cannot seem to reason it out in such a way that I am sure that what I want is possible.
When files are initially written into F1 I do not much care where the first copy gets stored as long as, when duplication is complete, one copy is stored on H: in its PoolPart folder.
The reason I need this is complex but suffice to say that I have a program that REALLY does not reliably read from the pool but does read fine from a physical disk.
There is another solution where I keep the directory outside the pool but that would complicate other things.
I am hoping there is something in the balancing/file placement rules or settings that would allow me to do as I want.
Note: F1 is never more than about 10% of the size of H: and its files are dynamic but, as I said, it does not matter where the first copy gets placed as long as one copy ends up on H: after duplication completes. Also currently the pool is only about 75% full.
Thanks for any and all help and/or ideas.
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