Creating a "virtual" dir that wraps two (external) drives
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I was wondering if MacOS Mojave (the most recent version I can be on due to some very expensive 32 bit applications) has a way to set up a system level "virtual" dir, or virtual drive, that combines two or more external drives and surfaces them as if they're one directory/drive to all applications.
E.g. something that lets me say "create a virtual dir/drive called
audio data
" (that *isn't* JBOD/RAID0) and then specify two (or more) external SSDs such that the content of that dir/drive is the combined content of the solid state drives. If one has dirs Pro Logic data
and Cubase data
and the other has dirs Kontakt
and Samples
, then I'd like a single virtual dir/drive that shows:
--- data
|--- Cubase Data
|--- Kontakt
|--- Pro Logic Data
|--- Samples
When both SSD are connected, or if one of them's not connected, show
--- data
|--- Cubase Data
|--- Pro Logic Data
or
--- data
|--- Kontakt
|--- Samples
depending on which drive's still accessible. Or a flatout empty dir/drive if nothing's connected.
With the explicit intent that if the SSDs that house dirs that some applications rely on aren't connected, then yes: those applications will throw errors. That's fine, and expected. I just want something that lets me surface a ton of data spread over multiple drives as a single dir/drive when they're all connected, with each SSD being "just a drive" that can also be connected to any random other computer that knows how to read/write the SSD's filesystem.
Asked by Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans
(156 rep)
Sep 26, 2021, 10:46 PM
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