Been in the process of moving my data over to pooled storage, and I just discovered that hardlinks are incompatible with DrivePool. This is an issue for me as several of my media files require BDMV structure for 3D playback, and in the past I’ve used hardlinks of the core .m2ts files to create a separate folder readable by Plex without taking up another 5TB of my total storage. Unfortunately, symlinks don’t cut it, as they aren’t seen as a media file, just a 0kb symlink.
I’ve heard there are some convoluted workarounds to enable hardlinks in DrivePool by disabling load balancing, but for me that kind of defeats the purpose of creating a pool, I.e, easy rebalancing when I need to replace a drive so that snapraid is a last resort.
TL;DR is there a good alternative to hardlinks that’s possible within pooled storage without disabling load balancing?