Can you specify the VDev where data is saved?

[Derf]

I plan to have two VDev's in my pool.

VDev 1 will be 4 disks / RAIDZ1.
VDev 2 will be 6 disks / RAIDZ2.

I'd like to save movie rips and music to VDev 1, and home movies, pictures, and personal files to VDev 2.

Can I make mount points on the different VDevs, like in Linux, so I can store everything under /Movies/ in VDev 1, and everything in /Pictures/ under VDev 2?

 

[jgreco]

No. That's not what a vdev is. Cyberjock has a sticky for you at the top of this forum.

 

[Derf]

I've seen that slideshow. He mentions CIFS mount points, but that sounds more like for sharing certain folders over the network...he doesn't specify if you can choose which VDev in the pool gets used for what. He simply says FreeNAS starts using available VDevs as they are added to the pool. He doesn't say if you can put certain files on certain VDevs.

 

[titan_rw]

You don't choose which vdevs get used. They all get used.

If you want to separate your data the way you're describing, setup two zpools, each one with a single vdev.

Alternately, you can have one zpool with all your drives, and use datasets for the different kinds of data. The data will still be spread across the entire pool though. That's the point of zfs.

 

[Derf]

If you want to separate your data the way you're describing, setup two zpools, each one with a single vdev.

Thank you! That is exactly what I will do.