[Features of Expired Trial]

Other than the obvious (not being able to start the array), what features are blocked out when the trial key expires?

I'm thinking of having a second Unraid machine that is dedicated to only running preclears, and prefer not to have to purchase another license for it.

How about VMs? Does that feature work with expired trial key?

I'm guessing dockers wouldn't work because they always need the array? Or can dockers be run from an unassigned device?

 

And could you still do a disk share (SMB) of an unassigned device?

 

I searched around and was unable to figure this stuff out -- or at least not explicitly spelled out anywhere.

[Reorder Disk Slots, but Maintain Share-to-Disk Mappings]

Currently, if a share has "Included Disk(s)" or "Excluded Disk(s)" and you reorder the Disk slots, the selection for the shares are not updated accordingly.

I sighted this in 6.9.0-beta30 but it's likely always been this way.

 

What would be nice is if it did automatically update it for you.

Even better is having a "reordering wizard", a "replace parity drive wizard", etc..

[Disk Name custom format and Nicknaming Disks]

In "Array Devices" section the disk names are currently quite verbose "(<model number>_<serial number> - <size> (sb<letter>)".

This is for the most part fine, but I would prefer to omit <size> since there is already a column showing it.

The ability to rearrange and hide columns here would be nice too.

I would also prefer to omit the <model number>.

But even better might be to allow specifying your own identifier/nickname.

And on top of that to give some formatting string, like "%nickname_%model_%serial (%sb)" -- you know, like printf().

[Multiple Arrays]

+1 for multiple arrays

Is this targeted for a specific future version yet? Like 7.0?

Would this allow going past the limit of 24 disks?

[Preclear plugin]

I often run preclear on 3 to 4 at the same time.

Saves a lot of time because it takes roughly the same amount of time as running just one.

[Split directories having different timestamps]

For a large share, spanning several disks, using cache_pool=yes, allocation_method=fillup, and split_level=top_two... I don't know if this is due to Mover or the way I use the SMB or occasionally do manual 'rsync -avX' between disks, but when I check  'stat' on split directories, the modify timestamps are mismatching for some but identical for others. (I am only using user shares; never enabled disk shares.)

 

    1. How is it intended to be maintained? (i.e. Should they ever differ? Is it okay for it to differ?)

    2. Which modified date is given to the Windows SMB when they do differ? (first disk index takes priority?)

    3. Is there some method/command to synchronize the modified_date across all parts of all split directories?

 

I looked into using unBalance plugin but it doesn't run as root and I'm worried whether it deals with the above issues 'correctly' (whatever that may mean). Also I was worried about security because the unBalance page doesn't present a user login screen (does it use the same cookie?).

 

I have since changed to split_level=manual but I know it only affects future writes to the share, it does not work retroactively and there is currently no built-in way for Unraid to re-adjust it. I wish there was tho. A way to tell Mover which disk to use for each directory, and for it to 'gather' for you.

[Dismiss Notification Sync]

Not sure how feasible this is, but when I have multiple browser windows/tabs open to the server, dismissing a notification in one does not dismiss it in all of them. Can this be made to dismiss in across all?

 

I guess this might make sense to be user-specific even if logged in from multiple devices to have it synced, but a different 'user' should still see the notification.

 

On top of this, if possible, in the agent API, to trigger notification dismissal there too.

[Preclear plugin]

Every time I reboot my server, the Preclear plugin disappears as if it uninstalled itself (or something else uninstalled it). And I have to reinstall it again. Is this a known issue? Anybody else seeing this issue? It's not happening with any of my other plugins.

 

I'm on 6.9.0-beta30 with trial key.

[Replace Parity Drive with larger w/o rebuild]

This has probably been asked before...

 

Is it possible to replace the parity disk with a new larger drive WITHOUT doing a data-rebuild?

So it would copy from the old parity disk to the new disk and zero-out the rest without needing to spin-up the other disks.

If possible, how? If not, shouldn't it be a requested feature?

 

Forgive me for asking a basic question. I'm a newbie.

But I did read https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure, which sort of shuffles the contents of 3 drives around.

That is not quite what I want.

[[Plugin] Custom Tab]

On my server, I have two NICs, each set to a different IP. Is there a way I can have the URLs setup so that it uses which ever IP it's currently under?

Like a relative address instead of an absolute address if that makes sense.

 

(The reason I'm needing this is because sometimes one connection goes down and I need to use the other.)

[[6.9.0-beta30] Mover keeps stopping]

I noticed that twice today, Mover has stopped running without completing its task to move everything off my single cache drive to the array, and it's been when the cache drive is very full (>99%). Is this normal/intended? Is there something I don't understand?

 

(I'm very new to Unraid; just started using it a few days ago.)

 

I'm running a 1 TB NVMe as cache, and two very slow 6 TB HDDs (+1 parity). I basically need the Mover to be running nonstop 24/7 to keep the cache drive unloaded. But it's been stopping every 4 to 6 hours today. Because I'm constantly uploading to it with a 10 Gbe connection. All the drives involved are brand new but hardware is a bit old (mobo Z87, cpu i7-4770K, ram 32G). I try to pause the upload whenever cache is over 90% but don't always catch it in time.

 

[Preclear plugin]

On 2/5/2017 at 7:57 AM, gfjardim said:

In The Statistics Sender plugin, I added a Dismissed Statistics Reports under /Tools. If you dismissed a report and want to send it later, you can go there and submit it later.

This feature is not working for me. I have some reports stuck there that won't go away. My internet connection does not seem to be the issue as a new preclear report that pops up for sending has been sending successfully. I have no idea how to fix this or if I'm doing something wrong.

 

EDIT: It started working after a reboot.