DFS alternative - Setup a JBOD like view

mheloy wrote:Hi,

is there a simple step by step on how can I use LSE to become DFS like

Thanks

I think it would help to read the LSE website tutorials.
Once you understand how to create hard links and junctions, it becomes trivial to create a view to your liking.

Again, this is all about creating a folder view that groups all of your data under one root.
Think of it as creating a folder and copying all of your data from different drives under it.
Now, instead of doing the actual copying, you are just pointing to the existing location through hard links and/or junctions.

Make sure that the root folder is outside of FlexRAID.

I understand... thanks again.

Hi Brahim, using Link Shell Extension (http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html) here and I'm wondering...

I have 5 different movie folders on different harddrives and, so far, I've managed to create a Movie Aggregate folder that, inside, has junctions to the 5 different folders.
Is there a way to have Movie Aggregate containing directly all the files contained in the five different directories?

This "Movie Aggregate" is not part of the RAID, the hard drives containing the actual files are.

gorman wrote:Hi Brahim, using Link Shell Extension (http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html) here and I'm wondering...

I have 5 different movie folders on different harddrives and, so far, I've managed to create a Movie Aggregate folder that, inside, has junctions to the 5 different folders.
Is there a way to have Movie Aggregate containing directly all the files contained in the five different directories?

This "Movie Aggregate" is not part of the RAID, the hard drives containing the actual files are.

Sadly, there is not easy way of doing this aside from link each individual movie folder.
You could write a simple script to make things easier (or if someone else wants to tackle this as I lack the time for it).

That's what I'm looking for as well. An aggregated view, or folder, that comprises same-named folders from multiple volumes. Given the plethora of file utilities, I'm kinda surprised there isn't any easy way to do this, or an app to handle it for you.

The hardlink thing is great, but this would be just a bit cooler.

gravy wrote:That's what I'm looking for as well. An aggregated view, or folder, that comprises same-named folders from multiple volumes. Given the plethora of file utilities, I'm kinda surprised there isn't any easy way to do this, or an app to handle it for you.

The hardlink thing is great, but this would be just a bit cooler.

I don't think it would be hard to come up with a good solution on Windows.
Linux already has a good solution (http://www.openegg.org/forums/posts/list/88.page).

On Windows, you could write a simple script (or a more complex one with directory monitoring) that would run every 5 minutes or so.

I could come up with the script, but I would prefer for a Windows developer to come up with a cleaner one.
Here is a good resource to follow: http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/hard-links.phtml.

Of course you could do it much simpler by using fsutil (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753059.aspx).