Hi,
I am trialing Drivepool currently and am trying to get a handle on how it places files.
For example in my initial testing (without changing defaults) I encountered many situations like this:
E:\movies\Big Buck Bunny\Big Buck Bunny.avi F:\movies\Big Buck Bunny\Big Buck Bunny.srt
(the subtitles for a given movie were placed on a different drive to the movie itself, which will surely cause two spinups to play the movie)
I should also say I intend to use it in combination with snapraid, so any post-placement moving/balancing is unwanted.
The userguide explains balancing as "the act of reshuffling your existing pooled files among the physical disks that are part of the pool."
Does this mean balacing is entirely separate to initial file placement?
For use with snapraid I should untick automatic balancing and also untick all the balancing plugins?
With balancing plugins disabled, what determines where new files go?