Disks 1, 2, and 3 contain /VHS root folder, Disk 4 does not. Mergerfs is running with a path preserving policy, such as empfs.
If running mergerfs.balance, I'd like to be able to exclude any data from being moved to disk4. Since balance is not path preserving, I can't currently prevent it from creating the VHS folder on disk4, but if I can exclude disk4 from being a recipient of any transferred data, this is possible, regardless of it not respecting path preservation.
Our prior conversations are here and here
Allow mergerfs.balance to exclude a disk or path from being a target of data moved during the balance process
Use case:
disk1 (3%) - VHS content disk2 (90%) - VHS content disk3 (90%) - VHS content disk4 (1%) - Docker volumes, databases, etc.
Disks 1, 2, and 3 contain /VHS root folder, Disk 4 does not. Mergerfs is running with a path preserving policy, such as empfs.
If running mergerfs.balance, I'd like to be able to exclude any data from being moved to disk4. Since balance is not path preserving, I can't currently prevent it from creating the VHS folder on disk4, but if I can exclude disk4 from being a recipient of any transferred data, this is possible, regardless of it not respecting path preservation.