Is it possible to separate photo storage (library) and thumbs/encoded-video

[stevetsanders]

I'm wondering if it's possible to separate the photo storage location from the generated thumbnails/encoded-video location. I've seen some posts about separating them to take advantage of unraid parity for the actual photos but keep the thumbnails/encoded-video/other stuff on the cache. Ideally the setup would this I think

unraid array:

• library folder

unraid cache

• thumbs
• encoded video
• everything else

I know it's possible when setting up your own docker container but wondering if it's still possible when using the community app here

[hydazz]

Yes, you can just map each folder to a different location on the host so /photos/thumbs mounts to /mnt/cache/immich/thumbs /photos/library mounts to /mnt/x/immich/thumbs and so on...

[stevetsanders]

Ah gotcha, so adding those additional subdirectories would be done via adding another path?

[dilirity]

Wondering the same thing! Is such a thing possible within unraid with the community app?

I couldn't find a variable that's used for the thumbnails directory.

EDIT:

I think I managed to do it as per @hydazz's suggestion (not sure how correct it is though):

For reference, this is my /photos and /libraries mounts:

[hydazz]

you'll want to try to avoid mounting a mount inside a mount, ie above you have /mnt/user/photos_immich mounted to /photos, but you also have /mnt/user/appdata/immich/thumbs mounted inside /photos - not the end of the world, but may cause issues

[dilirity]

I see, thanks.

What's the proper way of doing it?