Samba Shares - Specific disks only within SnapRAID
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I'm currently using unRAID trial for my needs, and I was using Xpenology before hand. I wanted to give unRAID a shot but don't really need it for all the other options like VMs and such. I can't see paying $89+ for NAS os when I can use FreeNAS, Xpenology other some Linux distro to simply share files over the network. I got to looking and I really like the idea of SnapRAID. Hwever within unRAID, I'm able to select which disks specific shares usingare using and I've not been able to find anything like that reading about SnapRAID. Basically I've got a few 8TB drives as my media drives, a single 8TB as parity and a few 2TB drives for my camera surveillance storage. I'm basically wanting to do this with SnapRAID. Is this possible? If this isn't possible, I'll probably go back Xpenology, run RAID5 with my 2TB as a raid group and then another RAID5 group for my 8TB drives.
if you want to use multiple disk as one big one, look for mergerfs. It will create one mount point over disks. It has many options where to store new files.
Yeah I know, I read about that but how exactly would I set it up for drives "disk4, disk5, disk6" be the only drives which are used for a specific share "surveillance", and "disk1, disk2, disk3" are used on all other shares with mergerfs + snapraid.
you have to setup two SnapRAIDs with different configuration files. There is an option to specify a configuration file instead of the default one. For mergerfs you will need just two mount points in /etc/fstab.
If you have one SnapRAID for all of your drives, it is very similar. Since there is no connection between SnapRAID and mergerfs, just create two mount points again pointing to the right discs.