Balancer Request

[C Blevins]

Hello!

I was wondering if it were to be possible to develop a balancer that will help with media servers. If someone has a large collection, currently, new files are parsed between all the drives in an array. If a drive were to die, you would lose random files of many different collections. For example, one or two episodes of 500 TV series. 

An ideal balancing would be to store all files of the lowest-level folder together. This way, if you lose a drive, you lose an entire series that could be replaced in batch, rather than piecemeal restoring episodes from a lot higher number of total series. 

Any thoughts?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

well, the ordered file placement balancer does try to do this.  The old notes for it go over this in a bit of detail.

https://dl.covecube.com/DrivePoolBalancingPlugins/OrderedFilePlacement/Notes.txt

However, it is a "best effort" and may not accomplish this.  And if you download files later on to update an older version, it may not end up on the same disk.