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Cache-prefer doesn't work the way you seem to think. Be sure you check out the link I gave earlier.

Looks like he has used the Andiroo2 account for more posts, and Andiroo only has this one post: So even if deleting Andiroo were to delete that relatively minor post, I have quoted it. Or maybe just disable the account. I guess I could have done that by flagging them as a spammer, but it's such a dirty word to hang on someone.

It is certainly possible to use an Unassigned Device for your downloads. You just can't use mover to get files to/from it. I think some of the apps you may be using have ways to move files around, or at least download to one place and unpack to another, for example. So maybe some of these apps could do some of the work depending on how you configure them. There is also User Scripts plugin which will allow you to schedule a script. Maybe something for you in the sample scripts there or the Unassigned Devices sample scripts. And, you might even make a copy of mover and modify it to your purposes. It is just a bash script at /usr/sbin/local/mover.

I think it likely that you have misdiagnosed the problem. In what way was the disk "killed"? There are a number of ways to have disk problems, and most of them don't mean there is anything actually wrong with the disk itself. If you have a situation in the future please ask for help.

How big is your cache? You can have a cache pool which allows you to choose from several btrfs raid configurations, including raid0 which will add their size together. There is no way to treat cache as separate disks. You might also reconsider how you are currently using cache. I only use it for cache-only shares, such as dockers or temporary files. There is no requirement to cache any user share writes, and most of mine go directly to the array. They are usually written to by automated processes such as downloads and backup, so it is unattended and I am not really waiting for them to complete. Each user share has cache settings. Here is a good reference of the effect of each of these settings: https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/?page=2#comment-537383

mover only works with user shares, and unassigned devices are not part of user shares. Personally I would just do it all on cache

As already mentioned in this thread and the Docker FAQ, in addition to having the container mappings correct, you must check that each application is only writing into folders that are mapped; i.e., on the left side of those mappings you posted. Here is the Docker FAQ, see the section about Docker Image Filling Up https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/57181-real-docker-faq/

I wouldn't count on it and of course that wouldn't really be fixing the problem.

Go ahead and uninstall it then reboot. Might not help but still a good thing to do.

Sounds like maybe your server can't reach the internet consistently. SSL and https was officially implemented in 6.4. Have you checked the release notes to see if your server is working as it should on the internet?

You don't need to use the "select template". You simply go to Community Applications and tell it to install your Previous Apps. By "path" I mean the folder you want to change. Is the word "path" unfamiliar to you? You click the Edit button next to it.

https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/57181-real-docker-faq/#comment-564314

Looks like "container station" refers to something in QNAP. This is the unRAID forum. I don't know if anyone here can help you or not.

After the problems getting you approved, it looks like you have wound up with 2 accounts. Please only use one of them. It is only going to cause confusion if you post as one then the other. @jonp is there some way we can kill one of these @Andiroo @Andiroo2 accounts?

So are you still having a problem? Are your other dockers working?

Tools - Diagnostics, post complete zip

I don't really see any way for a moderator to approve him without a first post. And I just got a PM from him. This feature of "don't let potential spammers post without approval" is new and maybe not working as well as it should. I know there have been spammers who sent PMs, posted to another users profile, and even reported posts without ever posting to the forum and getting approved. Did he maybe send a PM to you before he ever tried to post to the forum? Just trying to figure out what might have happened. Maybe @jonp or another admin could take a look.

I have never even tried to post from the top level. I always either reply to a thread that someone else has already started, or I am already in the subforum where I want to start a new thread. Maybe try that way.

The way it's supposed to work is he makes a first post, and when we approve that post he is approved. I've never seen it from his perspective though, so I don't really know what it looks like. Are you sure it won't let him post? Did his first post somehow get deleted and so we don't see it to approve? Is there anything else you can tell us? I know I have approved the first post of quite a few and they have been able to post more after that approval.

Probably you will have to repair the filesystem. Your syslog has this: Feb 28 20:30:26 Tiger emhttpd: /mnt/disk7 mount error: Unsupported partition layout How did this disk get into the array in the first place? Did you let unRAID format it after it was added to the array, or did you force it to accept it by doing a New Config or something? There are also some messages from your controller while trying to mount the disks. I would rather call in our expert @johnnie.black

You want to be very careful with using array drives outside the array, or you will invalidate parity. I would say don't do it unless you have to, and this was not a case where you really had to since you had not asked for other advice yet.

First of all, don't do any of the things you were thinking about doing, they are all wrong for this situation. Let us examine your diagnostics. What exactly do you mean by this? How are you mounting the drive with the array stopped?

Tools - Diagnostics, post complete zip

Limetech is of course the one with the definitive answers here. As you have probably already discovered, this is slackware linux. As far as I know there isn't really any "3rd party" except open source. The unRAID specific code is proprietary. I think this includes both the parity and user share implementation.

While something like your idea has been a feature request, it may not have seen much demand because people have been able to use the existing features for their specific purposes. You can already have user shares that remain on cache, and you can have redundancy of the cache pool. Normal HDD read speed in unRAID is just that, only write speed is affected by parity. And normal HDD read speed is usually enough for 1GB ethernet. For example, I have several user shares that stay on cache (cache-only or prefer). All my other user shares don't use cache for speeding up writes (cache-no). These all write directly to the array because they are mostly unattended downloads and backups, so write speed is unimportant. My user shares that remain on cache are for applications such as dockers, but I also have files that are accessed frequently (music for network players and pictures for screensavers). I keep these on SSD cache so no HDDs have to spin up. And my DVR recording goes here also since I may or may not want to keep these and I can write them while reading others that have already been recorded. And there is the ability to mount drives (and network shares) outside the array. I mostly use this feature for creating backups that I keep offsite, but it is also handy for copying files from other sources. Of course others will have different ways they use these built-in features.