Barafu

What is the current state of hard links and symlinks? I have 3 file sets that share about 80% of their files yet need a proper file structure to work. I tried to do hardlinking both from unraid console and remote console on NFS. And they both seem to work, but I am afraid if I can run into problems later. I can replace them with symlinks if it matters, but does it?

So you DO check the device in the VM settings or not? Did you uncheck them to make a screenshot?

I assume it is USB thing? Enter the console (telnet or SSH) and type lsusb . Copy the output here for us to read.

That is the speed of preclear write during the first several hour. After that it gradually went down. I don't know the final speed cause it happened at night and I use plugin. Anyway, I have 2Gb of ram in that machine.

Its WDC_WD40EZRX - a 4Tb WD Green. Read speed 80 MB/s while write speed 112MB/s. Raw device, of cause. Nothing unusual at SMART. I was planning to use it as a parity drive. It is currently being precleared. Should I not use it? It is very expensive for me.

Sorry to simply bump a thread, but I still didn't find any info on that.

I've seen faulty APC UPSes that claim they are on battery and empty while working fine on main power. Try unplugging your UPS data cable and see how it works.

I really want some kind of versioning in my NAS. Just to protect against accidental delete. I use btrfs system, so I could make use of its snapshotting feature. The question is - how the parity system would react to manually making snapshots from the console?

Good, that worked. # Disable telnet and ftp sed -i -e 's/^telnet/#telnet/;s/^ftp/#ftp/' /etc/inetd.conf /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart The variant in the wiki did not.

Sure, after asking the question I immediately found the answer. I had to dele te contents of /boot/config/ssh and reboot. Now it is working. Sorry. Looking how to disable telnet now.

1) There isn't anything to preclear after you have formatted the whole drive really. 2) Yes, you should enable a cache drive only after you put your initial data on the array. Even more, if you are copying your data and thus have a backup (the original place) during transfer, disable parity disk too. Enable it after the transfer is complete.

While I am still building my NAS and have monitor and keyboard attached, can I enable SSH and disable telnet from console? I could try the usual Slackware method but I am afraid of silently breaking something specific to unRAID.

Cool. I am in!

Thanks for the answer! Sounds good. To clarify: so I can, start PC, run Windows, shut it down, run Arch, shut it down, run Windows... And all this without switching cables, using the same mouse and powerfull GPU, and having access to data storage, and with, say, DLNA server running in background. Yes? Cool!

I am IT developer from Russia, big Linux enthusiast, Windows gamer, but never before worked with any virtualisation besides VirtualBox. I like trying new OSes. I want a clarification from an experienced unRAID user that unRAID fits my need, before I start learning it. My home PC has many operating systems, Win10 for gaming and CAD, and several Linuxes. I am practically OK with dualbooting but have a storage problem. My PC has 10Tb of data, on 4 HDDS of different size and age. I want it to be accessible from all OSes, for Windows to have read-only access to some parts, and keep it with versioning and duplication in case of disk failure. Right now I have data on BTRFS RAID10. Windows gets access to it through a small virtualized Linux server that autostarts. The drawbacks are low speed and that Windows still has a write access to drives, so that malware can destroy them. And I am uncomfortable using that BTRFS RAID from different kernel versions. I was going to build a separate PC for NAS and home server and move my disks there. Then i found out about unRAID. So I thought: may be I should keep my disks in my PC (it has loads of good(but not ECC) memory, seasonic power unit and other good stuff) and set my OSes in virtual container? The questions are in ease of use. 1) Can different OSes, booted in sequence, not simultaneously, use the same peripherals and graphics card hassle-free? 2) What about OSes and unRAID itself? Do I have to use separate video cards for them? May be an Android device can work as an interface to unRAID? If no, I may be better off with traditional NAS and traditional dualbooting. It will cost much more, though. Thanks a lot!!!