# Organization of your Data / Dataset Hierarchy? **URL:** \ **Category:** TrueNAS\ **Created:** [December 21, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/organization-of-your-data-dataset-hierarchy/1543 "2023-12-21T09:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thn80](https://forums.spacerex.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@thn80](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/thn80)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/organization-of-your-data-dataset-hierarchy/1543/1 "2023-12-21T09:34:04Z")
Hello, at the moment I am on the definition of the structure of my datasets and how to organize my data for the private family NAS. For this I am trying to follow the approach to have top-level datasets depending on their data priority. However, it is hard to find a good concept and at the moment I am struggling with the question on how to handle different users in the folder/dataset structure. For example, should I place photos inside /tank/ds\_prio1/ **photos/user1** and /tank/ds\_prio1/ **photos/user2** or would it be better to have something like /tank/ds\_prio1/ **user1/photos** and /tank/ds\_prio1/ **user2/photos**? Could you, maybe, give some examples of your dataset structure and how you handle different users in your dataset/folder structure? If there are family photos stored, how to handle photos all users shall have access to? From the content a single ‘family\_photos’ dataset would fit best and sharing this dataset via SMB with all family members. However, if everyone has read/write access to store & view the photos there is a chance that a user deletes/modifies photos by fault. For sure, after a fault we can use snapshots and backups to recover the data, but is there any other good practive on how to handle datasets on which multiple users shall have read/write access? I would really, really be interested on details on how you organize the datasets/folders on your servers. Thanks a lot, Thomas