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Do you use a cache drive?
What third party plugins do you use?
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The critical thing for anything other than unraid basic is the license file, which is tied to the GUID of the flash device. VERY few readers have unique GUID's, and without that, Tom will not issue a license for it. So far, I think the only readers that work for licensing are Kingston Mobilite G2 and G3, but there are issues, and only specific models seem to work, and only with some motherboards.Flash card reader??
Are we saying we can use a flash card instead of a USB stick?
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=27163.0
That said, the card is pretty unimportant, big and fast is good, and since you can replace them whenever you wish, longevity isn't as big an issue.
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I took a different path, how many directories and files put on my NAS
Directories: find /mnt/user0 -type d | wc -l
Files: find /mnt/user0 -type f | wc -l
989,576 files in 60,700 directories
Sound about right
root@AVFILES:~# find /mnt/user -type d | wc -l 75780 root@AVFILES:~# find /mnt/user -type f | wc -l 1201077
Needless to say, cachedirs is pretty useless.
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Physically moving the drives from port to port will not remove them from the array. As long as unraid can find the drive somewhere in the system, it will stay assigned the the same array slot and nothing will change with your data.
You will want to properly shut down the array before you change connections. Hot plugging is not advisable, as too many things could go wrong.
If I were you, I'd physically mount all the drives where you want them in the case, and connect everything exactly the way you want it. Before you start changing logical array assignments, I'd run at least 1 preclear cycle on all the newly acquired drives, mainly as a testing routine to ensure you don't have any questionable drives in the mix. Unraid requires all remaining drives to be read perfectly to reconstruct any single drive failure, so you don't want any borderline or questionable drives in the array.
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Current unraid versions do not rely on port connection to identify logical slots in the array, so you can move them around to any controller you want and unraid should find them.
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All you need is elves.It was the elves man, gotta watch out for those guys. -
Problem is that it spams the syslog. Dynamix is working at odds with the design of the stock gui to achieve something that should be handled differently. Normally it doesn't cause too much of an issue, except when you run out of space for the syslog, which causes troubleshooting nightmares. It would be nice if the default was NOT to continually update, with a warning notice about the syslog messages if you enable the auto refresh option.+1 Dynamix (by default) continually updates page status...which is usually the behavior people want. That can be turned off in settings.
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Does it come up if you type \\tower in the explorer or find bar?
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I don't know that it was causing the shutdown issue, but it definitely was causing the web gui reload syslog spam. Any program that keeps a file open on the array will cause a shutdown issue. Theoretically plugins should monitor requests to stop the array and nicely terminate so the array can shut down, but that doesn't always work well when the array is healthy, so who knows how they will react when the array is having issues.ps. Out of curiosity, how did you know that Dynamix was causing the problem with the shutdown? I will definitely get rid of dynamix, because other than being eye-candy it doesnt serve much purpose for me.I wouldn't necessarily throw dynamix under the bus, but you need to read the entire dynamix thread to understand the progression of things. I'm pretty sure the constant reload issue was discussed in the main thread, there is a setting to revert to manual refresh like the stock gui.
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Allocation and split level only effect which disk a new write to a user share is started on, so any changes will leave your data exactly as it is on the drives. Unraid never moves data from one protected disk to another by itself.Can I edit these settings later without losing data? -
Sleep is not included in the limetech unraid release. All sleep functions are third party add on features. The reason given for this is the huge variety of hardware that it is possible to use stock unraid with doesn't all support sleep the same way, so waking from a sleep state is hit or miss depending on which of hundreds of possible motherboards is in use.This seems so basic, but I can't find any functionality to do this. -
Did the new drives pass at least 1 preclear cycle in their current physical location with no errors?I replaced 2 of my 500GB drives with new WD RED 3TB ones after clearing off the data and doing a New Config.
Where to begin? Not sure what directions I should take? I guess I could pull the new drives and see if the parity will sync without them?
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BTW, it's a very bad idea to be running ANY plugins when your array isn't healthy. I don't think any of the plugin authors test their software additions to unraid with the array in a bad situation, they all assume everything is working as it should. Trying to solve an array issue with plugins running is going to complicate matters immensely.The only plugins I am running are:
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Dynamix is the culprit.jonathanm,
Thank you. That's quite interesting. I am not doing anything to the browser, yet somehow it keeps acting like that. When I started the server without the plugins it shut itself down beautifully.
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That particular set of messages looks to me like what happens whenever the main web ui is refreshed. So if you hit refresh on the browser, it will generate all those messages each time you refresh.When I look at the syslog, the syslog is wildly active with the same set of messages repeating itself in a wild loop even when the web ui states that the array is shut down. -
There was some mention on this forum of an external drive liberated from its case to be used internally having HPA. I can't remember which manufacturer.What drive manufacturers pre-configure an HPA these days? Probably zero. -
Post a new screenshot of the share settings page.
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Which is precisely why I worded it that way. If I had just said, "you need to run the new permissions script" I can almost guarantee the next post would have been asking how to do it.Thank you. Google wasn't helping because I felt like I didn't even know what I was searching for. Even just telling me "new permissions script" was enough to get me there, so I've got that running now and hopefully my shares should be working again when it finishes.
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Since you are updating from 4.7 to 5.x, you have to run the new permissions script to assign the correct permissions to all the files. Google is your friend.Using the information provided by trurl for the other thread, I've got my disks back up and running. Now I've got a new issue: I can't access 2nd level folders on any of my shares.
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What command did you type, EXACTLY?the only reiserfsck commands I ran were 'check' then 'fix' but 'fix' aborted.
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only sleepingis 5.0.6 dead?
meaning? will it be released soon?
That is up to Tom. If you want an official answer, email him directly. Anyone else is just speculating.
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As long as you did not assign any drives to the array slots, unraid will not write to them, so your data should be fine. Did you complete an error free parity check before you started the upgrade?
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What speeds were you getting before, and what did you expect to see? "Speed" is a very nebulous term, what process exactly are you benchmarking?it seems to be much slower than I anticapted. -
Unraid doesn't care what the serial number of the disk is to read the data. You can set a new config and assign all drives as data drives, and unraid will mount and share the ones with valid reiserfs file systems. If you have a single bad data drive and want to recover its contents using the parity drive, that is a little more complicated, but still doable.
Can you please describe your system? Motherboard, HBA's, and list of all the drives with sizes and current condition would help.
That is up to Tom. If you want an official answer, email him directly. Anyone else is just speculating.
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