plasticrake

New to unraid, still in my trial. My requirement is I'd like to run certain services (dockers and/or VMs) while the array is stopped. My concern is that "critical" services such as home automation, network management may be down for hours at a time if I encounter any issues where I need to stop the array for hours at a time to fix. These services would not need to be on the array at all (just a cache disk or unasigned device), I'd just like to run them on the same box. Any ideas on what I can do? 1) Run docker when array is stopped 2) Run VM when array is stopped 3) Run Unraid inside a VM and run my other services in a separate VM or in the host system? Or is this not a likely issue and I'm overthinking this? Thanks!

Thanks Squid! I'll go ahead any keep it at `prefer` and /mnt/user. But the FAQ I linked that was posted by you says the opposite (and says "never" maybe it should be updated)? This is what is driving me crazy right now figuring out unraid. I'm new to unraid and I get conflicting info. Same with the preclear stuff. I've both read that you should use it and also that its out of date and you shouldn't, etc etc.

I'm a few days into my trial and the lack of official documentation along with the large amounts of outdated and incorrect documentation, and conflicting information in the forums is driving me bonkers trying to set things up. Right now I'm trying to understand how to configure docker. By default appdata was created with `Use cache disk` set to `prefer`. Since this won't guarantee that the data will be on the cache it would follow that you should use `/mnt/user/appdata/` in your docker volumes and settings. I've also seen this recommended on the forums in case your cache drive fills up your docker containers won't have issues. However the Docker FAQ @Squid on here says to Use cache disk set to `only` and to only use `/mnt/cache/appdata/` I'd prefer to use `prefer`; it seems more flexible. Is that bad? If so why is that the default for appdata? Thanks!