Unclear on the interaction between cache drives and SMB
I have shared folders I want to access over SMB. A couple of those I have set to cache with my single nvme cache drive, for speedy updates. Now, to access the share, write to it over SMB, etc., while benefiting from the cache, do I share the cache drive over SMB and use that path from windows, or is this accomplished transparently and I only need to map the shares on the array themselves?
Thanks for clarifying.
There are a couple of ways user shares can produce unexpected results. Not really a problem if you are aware of them.
If you mix user shares and disks when moving/copying files, you can actually lose data, because Linux doesn't realize that the source path and the destination path might actually be the same file, and so tries to overwrite what it is trying to read. This is often referred to as the User Share Copy Bug.
The Linux command for Move and Rename are the same, mv. So when
