Pseudolife
Dabbler
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- Jan 7, 2016
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Hello,
Is there a good guide somewhere to handling symbolic links in FreeNAS?
I have several sets of files on my server that should be in two or more locations at once, and rather than have the files duplicated/triplicated, I'm wondering if I could get by with symbolic links. Being somewhat of a newbie at this, I'm not at all sure this is a good idea, how to do it, and what side effects it might cause.
Here's what I'm looking at:
/tank/husbanddata (My files, shared with me on Windows)
/tank/wifesdata (My wife's files, shared with her on her a Mac)
/tank/plexdata (Used by the Plex Plugin to make things viable on our TVs)
Right now, there is a folder full of wedding photos in all three spots, which seems like a lot of wasted duplicated data. I'm figuring I could use Symbolic Links to make it one set of data that is accessible in three spots, but it will be a tad tricky because of sharing and permissions?
Also: Is there a possible set of issues here that could be a problem for use? Say my wife has the "prime" copy of the pictures in her data-set. If my wife renames her folder, would it break the symbolic links? If she moves it? What if I rename or move my version of the folder (the link), would it break? Refuse?
Is there a good guide somewhere to handling symbolic links in FreeNAS?
I have several sets of files on my server that should be in two or more locations at once, and rather than have the files duplicated/triplicated, I'm wondering if I could get by with symbolic links. Being somewhat of a newbie at this, I'm not at all sure this is a good idea, how to do it, and what side effects it might cause.
Here's what I'm looking at:
/tank/husbanddata (My files, shared with me on Windows)
/tank/wifesdata (My wife's files, shared with her on her a Mac)
/tank/plexdata (Used by the Plex Plugin to make things viable on our TVs)
Right now, there is a folder full of wedding photos in all three spots, which seems like a lot of wasted duplicated data. I'm figuring I could use Symbolic Links to make it one set of data that is accessible in three spots, but it will be a tad tricky because of sharing and permissions?
Also: Is there a possible set of issues here that could be a problem for use? Say my wife has the "prime" copy of the pictures in her data-set. If my wife renames her folder, would it break the symbolic links? If she moves it? What if I rename or move my version of the folder (the link), would it break? Refuse?