Quick file duplication questions.

[fattipants2016]

Just a few quick questions.

1.) If a folder is duplicated on 2 or more drives, is there a way to dictate which copy / drive the system accesses routinely (say an SSD rather than spinning disk?)

2.) Are the contents of the [metadata] folder that are 3x duplicated by default anything that drives would actually be spun up to access? If so, is there a way to force them to be read / stored on a SSD?

 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

1. No, not really. 
   But ... hierarchical pools could let you effectively do that.  Add two pools to another pool and enable duplication on the top level pool. That way, one set of the files resides on each pool.   That ... may get what you want. 
2. It's used primarily for reparse point, right now. 
   And I think that this information is stored in memory once the system starts, but I'd have to double check with Alex (the Dev) 

[fattipants2016]

As long as #2 is loaded into memory, no complaints here.

#1 was for a possible scheme I had to replace a scheduled backup of certain files with duplication, but I'll just keep doing what I'm doing.