Question for Enterprise storage.

[dvc9]

Hey!

So I have been working on this idea...
and its doable with symlinks from HELL ... so not a great idea, but here goes.

We have 2 FreeNAS systems.

A is a pure SSD server, with loads of ram and great performance.
B is a HDD Server with 11 drives in RaidZ3 x 5, so total 55 drives, some memory, some L2ARC.

So for the user I would like a project folder to look like this, if possible

---- PROJECT // stored on B
-------- FILES // stored on B
-------- FILES_NEED_SPEED // stored on A

So the thoughts where UNC symlinks created in Windows, but that's not really an good option,
just think of the archive pain and all the errors that can be added...

therefor the question , feature request.

Is there a way to mount ZFS datasets from remote systems, in a ZFS dataset ?

 

[sretalla]

You mount remote filesystems through shares... so actually you're just mounting SMB/CIFS or NFS, which is certainly possible.

I don't think this solution will necessarily work as you want in terms of speed or straightforward administration (permissions will be a headache).

 

[dvc9]

Yeah, i know, hence feature request :)
I know that I could mount all trough the fast server as an example... but yeah, it will be pain in a AD universe.

I guess this feature, if someone would do it possible, would be called “active tiered storage”