Feature Request: Striped writes to dedicated space on pool.

[bobloadmire]

It would be great to allocate some dis space (say 10TB/disk or something) that would be a dedicated folder or even drive letter for striped writes. This would be great for usenet/torrent downloads, or when your bandwidth exceeds a single disk performance, or when unpacking PAR files. That way I could unpack directly in the stripped pool space and then just move the files to the standard pool space.

 

Or another option would be to make all writes striped and then have the duplication / movement of files to a single disk happen in the background so you could have immediate access to the files with the advantage of having them unpacked faster.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Unfortunately, this is very unlikely to be added, as we have no intention of spreading the contents of files between multiple drives. 

 

However, you could use Storage Spaces or RAID, and add that drive to the pool.  And you can use the balancers and/or file placement rules to get this sort of behavior.