This is my directory structure:

* Movies:
  * `Media/Movies/Movie_Name/movie_file.mp4`
  * `Media/Movies/Movie_Name/movie_file.nfo`
  * `Media/Movies/Movie_Name/movie_file.srt`
  * `Media/Movies/Different_Movie_Name/movie_file.mp4`
  * `Media/Movies/Different_Movie_Name/movie_file.srt`
* qbittorrent

  * `Media/qbittorrent/incomplete/Show0/Season X/episode1.mp4`
  * `Media/qbittorrent/incomplete/Movie2/movie_file.mp4`

  * `Media/qbittorrent/Show1/Season X/episode1.mp4`
  * `Media/qbittorrent/Movie3/movie_file.mp4`

 

With a split level of 2, `Movie_Name` and `Different_Movie_Name` directories may be on different disks but each movies entire contents will be on the same disk.

 

What happens is that Sonarr/Radarr send a torrent to qbit to download to `Media/qbittorrent`. Qbit downloads to `Media/qbittorrent/incomplete` and then moves the completed download to `Media/qbittorrent`.

 

Now, with radarr and sonarr, they "copy" files from download client to my actual share using hard-links (not actual copy). How would that split work with this hard link? Will the split at the time of directory/file creation in qbittorrent be the permanent one? In other words, if the initial download happens in `Media/qbittorrent/incomplete`, does that means that the entire `Media/qbittorrent/incomplete` will be on the same disk, and any hardlinks created to that will not actually move the file to another (more appropriate disk)?

Edited February 27, 20215 yr by Howboys

Would really like to understand how this works, and if I should re-do my shares.

No kind of hard linking is ever going to move a file from one disk to another.

In that case, what's the ideal setup for me if I don't want to copy (use hard-links)? Even if I were to have qbit downloads in its own share, that wouldn't really solve my problem would it?