I've installed the new unionfilesystem plugin, but I'm looking to a way to keep some control on how the drives are used/allocated (from a usage balancing point of view).
When I was using the aufs plugin there was a checkbox (mfs) that if checked was forcing the drives' balancing, while if unchecked was preserving the folder structure.
I had this box unchecked and if I remember correctly how the system was behaving, if I had one folder (XYZ) created only in few disks out of the pool, the moment i was going to create (via aufs filesystem) a new file/folder in XYZ, this was going to be stored only in these few disks.
Now, with the unionfilesystem, when I do the same and I create a new file/folder in XYZ, a new folder is eventually created in one of the other disks (part of the same pool, but with more free space) and the file/folder stored in there.
Which I assume is because the underlying aufs is automatically configured as if mfs is checked.
This is good from a disk balancing point of view, but it is mixing up all different type of files (pictures, music, movies, ...) for which I would still like to have some control/segregation on which disks they are stored (while having only one single entry-point for the media-player application).
(just for clarity: I use only the poolshare filesystem in samba to read, write files, while I'm creating these "predifined subfolder structure" directly from the CL)
is there a way to still keep some control on the disk space allocation (preserving the folder structure) also with the new plugin?
(may be manually editing some configuration file?)
thanks.