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Spoke too soon... got home this evening to find it up to monkey business again. It has properly encoded the files that needed encoding, except one. When I ran ts, I saw processes numbered 15,434 and down!!! I've just run "tcrepack" from the terminal, and it's picked up the missing one and is encoding now. Although somewhat strangely when I look at the output of ts, it shows the job twice... one finished immediately, and the other is running now. Maybe this is just a peculiarity of ts which I never noticed before. I'll see whether it stops there, or starts adding thousands of processes. Assuming it doesn't, any ideas what else could be going wrong with the cron job? ----EDIT---- Even running tcrepack manually now sets off the infinite loop. The encode failed midway through, and off it ran... caught it while it was still in the 100s!

As it currently stands (albeit I understand that changes are in the works), UnRaid does not support hot-swap. The array needs to be brought offline before you can remove or add a drive to the array, limiting to the value (to me personally anyway) the tray-less design.

Worked like a charm last night! Thanks for the quick fix.

Thank you GJones - will let you know how it performs tonight!

Great - thank you!

Back down to $74.99... in for one!

Hi - me again! TC is working excellently, except for the daily cron aspect of it. A few days ago I put the dailyrepack it into the etc/cron.daily directory, and then clean forgot about it. I went to check today, and the ts has over 3000 entries (there are probably only 10 or so files that actually need encoding). It seems to be picking up the correct files for transcoding, but the are thousands of entries to /tmp directory... they're called ts-out.xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is a random six characters - like EtSwL4). The entries in ts look something like this: 3191 finished /tmp/ts-out.EtSwL4 0 4.06/0.25/0.04 /usr/local/bin/tcremkv /mnt/user/TV/Name/Season_x/Filename.mkv If I just call tscrepack from the command line everything works perfectly, so it seems to be something funky going on with the cron job. Grateful for any support - please let me know if you need any further details. Thank you! Chris

Back up to base price of $89.99... price freaking changed between putting them in my basket and going to check out

Many thanks prostuff1 - I'll give touch a go to see if it work. The trouble is that this would also need to be done manually for each updated directory... unless someone (who knows how to program in linux:) would write something that could be cron'd to search for files in directories newer than the associated folder, and touch the folder to update the mtime to the date of the latest file. This is a bit of a messy workaround though, and will like cause regular spin-ups of the disks unnecessarily. Would be grateful for any thoughts?

Hi, The most recent releases of Plex seem to have updated their media scanner approach. The new scanner is a "Turbo scanner" and looks for directory modification dates (mtime) to determine whether there is new media which needs to be scanned. As stormshaker pointed out, the mtime of directories in a user share aren't updated after creation, even though the directories on the drives themselves are. As an example, if you add a file to TV_Show/Season_1/new.episode.mkv, the following mtimes are shown: /mnt/disk1/TV/TV_Show/Season_1 3-26-11 (now) /mnt/user/TV/TV_Show/Season_1 2-23-11 (when the directory was first created) This means that new media added to a directory already created now is no longer being scanned by Plex. Is anyone else encountering this issue? You can by-pass the turbo scanner in Plex by doing a Option-Refresh in the media manager, but this means no more automatic updates. The other option is to instead point Plex to the individual drives, but this somewhat negates the benefit of a user share. Is there anything that can be done to get UnRaid to update the mtime of the directory in the user share? Or are there any better ideas out there before I go changing paths and rescanning my whole library?

All drives *should* be pre-cleared before deploying into a production environment, but none *must* be. One could argue it's even more important for a cache drive as it isn't part of the protected array. So in a drive failure, you lose all the data on the cache drive. You'll find very few people on this forum who don't pre-clear every drive that goes into their systems.

Thank you for your very thoughtful and well researched answer... it is very much appreciated! This is a very useful script - thank you for posting it here!

I'm looking to replace a 92mm fan on the back of my Norco backplane to reduce noise and improve airflow in my system. I have a Supermicro X8SIL motherboard which has connections for 5 fans onboard, of which I'm only using one for the CPU fan. Are there any pros/cons to one or the other? I was considering the following two fans: Non-PWM fan: Noctua NF-B9 http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NF-B9-Case-fan-92/dp/B0014I9K30/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1 PWM fan: Cooler Master BladeMaster 92mm PWM http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-BladeMaster-Silent-R4-BM9S-28PK-R0/dp/tech-data/B0034AFDL4/ref=de_a_smtd Or certainly value any other suggestions... Thank you very much!

FYI - the script ran last night without error... maybe it was just having a funny moment!

Absolutely - here is my setup: Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 CPU: Intel Xeon X3440 Lynnfield 2.53GHz PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX Backplane: NORCO SS-500 5 Bay SATA Hard disks (2TB): 3 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive There is also a USB hard disk plugged in and connected using SNAP. Folder structure is as follows (using user shares): /mnt/user/TV/Series_name/Season_no/Episode.mkv /mnt/user/Movies-DVD/Movie_name/Movies.mkv (or VIDEO_TS) /mnt/user/Movies-Bluray/ (currently unused) /mnt/user/replaced/ (old un-encoded files) /mnt/disk/disk1/ and /mnt/disk/disk2 /mnt/disk/usb/ (various files) Is that sufficient detail?

I am using shares, but this folder doesn't appear in the list of network folders in OS X (not sure if you have any Mac experience). It does appear in the terminal when I browse to /mnt/user/replaced though... Should I delete the directory /mnt/user/replaced, and then create a share in the UnRaid interface?

Hi, I've been using the standard .DS_Store removal package for the last week, but last night it kicked me an email with the following error: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. Can any tell me if this is bad, will recur, and what I can do to remedy? Thank you so much!

GJones - I'm so sorry... I totally messed up what I meant, and just realized! What I really meant was is there a reason that the original files (non-transcoded) go into a "replaced" directory on the disk that they came from? I was thinking it would be easier to keep all the replaced originals in one central place. So sorry for the confusion!

Thank you GJones - I was trying to be more specific to prevent the script from re-transcoding all my files without having to rename everything _H264. But I've take the advice given earlier and renamed all spaces to "_"... doesn't look as pretty, but it works! May I ask about the logic for putting the replaced files on the same disk as the original? Seems to me it might be easier to have them all kept centrally (on the cache drive for instance), rather than having to go through each disk to clear out? Maybe I'm missing something here though.

Here's an explanation I wrote on how the parity drive works: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11368.msg108151#msg108151

This is an outstanding deal for someone who wants a 20+ drive system. This is the old version, which IMHO is better as there is an eSATA port on the front, rather than the USB3 on my system. I just bought this case for my system, and it is very well put together... although I paid $159 + tax. I did try to get the best prices on all my components, but must have missed this one... oh well...

Yes - I hate flashing firmware - I actually pulled my system apart to install a backplane last night, and since turning it back on haven't had any errors at all. So, I think I'm going to leave this sleeping dog for the time-being... Was the IPMI update painless/ worth doing? If so, perhaps I'll do that. Really appreciate tapping your knowledge on this one - I'm sorry you had to go through the pain!

How do you handle spaces in the path within tcOPTIONS? I'm trying to use a search folder of "/mnt/user/tv/This\ Series\ Name/", but it tries to find ".mnt/user/tv/This\", "Series\" and "Name\", getting a "No such file or directory" warning for each. Tried it without the forward slashes to no avail... What is the format I should use?

Seems to be the standard deal these days, but after a week at $99.99 it's back at Newegg.com at $79.99 Link

Thank you Heretic, Yes - I get the following IPMI events: 1 2011/03/12 15:31:20 FAN 5 Fan Lower Non-Critical - Going Low - Asserted 2 2011/03/12 15:31:20 FAN 5 Fan Lower Critical - Going Low - Asserted 3 2011/03/12 15:31:20 FAN 5 Fan Lower Non-Recoverable - Going Low - Asserted N.b. Fan 5 isn't connected I emailed Supermicro tech support and got advised to update the BIOS and IPMI firmware... which I will do at some point, but not quite now. Other than this minor glitch, the server is working beautifully and I want to enjoy using it before I go flashing the BIOS and screwing something up!!! Will keep this thread posted on results.