Niklas

Thanks. Back on usb for now. I emptied my split pool, blkdiscarded the drives until going internal boot later. No change for the start time of docker service at boot or array start/stop. "Server rc.docker: rebuild container abc123" for all containers take a lot of time. Big containers make it taking a very long time, up to 10 minutes. The container at the top fails to start (AdGuard Home with tailscale hook) (it tries but fails for some reason), no problem starting it manually when docker service is done with whatever its doing.

I'm having big problems with docker service since going to internal boot (I switched with beta2). Yes, posted about it in the bugs forum (slow docker start thread). I have done some changes since so I can't just go back to the older usb backup. Would it work to backup internal boot, put back on USB, skip grub-folder and make sure to copy only the EFI-folder from older backup to USB? No tpm migration as my server doesn't have tpm. Edit I can't say for sure it will make any difference going back to USB but I'm open to try.

Works here. I'm on 7.3.0-beta1. Worked fine on stable too, I haven't noticed anything recent.

USB boot is also something that often gets brought up as a problem. Especially in discussion where people claim that running Unraid from a USB drive is an issue without really understanding how it actually works (the running from RAM thing). Now there is an option to use internal boot instead, which removes what is honestly a somewhat imagined barrier to run Unraid and it lines up with other systems. It also comes with a more robust filesystem, using ZFS instead of FAT, and the option to run a mirrored setup for added reliability.

Yep. Stable for me too. Just waiting for some fixes in beta 2. Then i'll try internal boot (no tpm, old harware).

I don't care what the boot partition is as long as the rest can be zfs stripe and encrypted. 😉 Thanks

Boot can be mirror but I want the data part to be zfs stripe. And encrypted. Possible?

No. It's ZFS.

So a bug then. Saw SimonF reply to someone with the same question on Discord. Edit: https://product.unraid.net/p/pool-status-of-unknown Encrypted ZFS pools here. :)

Whats this? Unknown for both of my ZFS pools. One mirror (2 ssd drives) and one stripe (2 ssd drives). Nothing fancy or special. ;)

This function is built in to Unraid. Settings -> Disk Settings.

I don't find this updated or supported (just haven't seen answers in this thread or updates to the plugin) really. Didn't work that great for me and the ui is a bit confusing. Personally I now use Automatic Disk Unlock (by EDACerton here). Works great and well documented.

The point was just to try if the "other one" showed the activity, also I gave a suggestion to turn atime off. Unraid tries to do that at mount time but it does not work. I just have some things I would like to have if to switch fully. Saving of sort order and # of events to show (I always want "All"). And a clear all button easily accessible in the list (I check almost every day and press "clear all" when done or when I active monitor the list). But that's just personal preferences. Knowing what is doing the access more granular would be golden of course. But the other thing, about the activity not showing up at all is absolutely on me. I should have posted about it but I was thinking about me doing something wrong and it was easy to just switch back. Sorry about that. Edit: Just do add to this. I can hear the drives spin up in the distance at home. Usually I check file activity to see like "what's going on now?" and the list is just blank sometimes (with this one). When it works I check, see that "ok, that's why" and then clear all. I also use the clear button when I'm doing big operations to see, like the on going progress. ;-)

I know. I switch from time to time because I like to try both. Not advertising. What would i gain from that? Some kind of competition? I will keep quiet. Sorry. What I noticed from the latest version is that almost all activity is by shfs anyways (as I only care for the hdd array) and sometimes it does not show activity at all even if there is. Don't know if it is when changing the settings, rebooting or something.

"Advertising". Ok.

I have noticed this version not always works. Stops logging in some case I don't know. Still using file.activity-next.plg (enable for open file events and make sure "Status: Running" if trying that one out). With ZFS in the array, set atime=off to prevent that sort of spin up too (that won't show up in these tools)

I find that one strange too. 😆

Yes. You can only delete empty shares (folders). You can use the built in file manager in the ui. Edit This strange icon will open it (I would like to see something like a file cabinet). Don't forget the files placed directly in /mnt/cache. It should only have folders, no files.

Unraid will add every folder it finds in the root of your mounts as shares if you haven't set them up as shares. So docker has created all of them in /mnt/cache and Unraid finds them and adds them automatically with default share settings. Because you shouldn't have any stray folders (and no files) there without matching shares. :) That's good if you lost your usb-drive or config for the share. The folders will show up as shares for you to easily find them and set them back to your own settings.

Yes. You have it set to /mnt/cache and that's directly on your cache pool root, no share. You need at least /mnt/cache/sharename Better to create a share named "docker" with cache as primary, no secondary and change the docker folder path from /mnt/cache to /mnt/user/docker (/mnt/cache/docker would also work, it will be the same share but could cause problem in the future if you want to move the docker share). I edited my first answer, you need to clean up the docker files and folders, se my edited answer. After deleting the folders (and the three files) you may need to delete the shares with the same names in the gui that Unraid created because it found all those folders not connected to any shares under /mnt/cache/*. Btw, you will lose all your docker containers after this but you can easily add them back by using Apps - Previous Apps or click "ADD CONTAINER" on the Docker-tab and find your template in the list under "[ User templates ]", don't change anything and click APPLY. All settings remembered. NEVER set any paths with no share. Like /mnt/cache or /mnt/user. There needs to be a corresponding share, like /mnt/cache/myshare or /mnt/user/myshare. Easiest way is to always use /mnt/user/myshare (name as you wish). Unraid will handle and keep track of where the data goes. Following your specific share settings ofc.

Changed this post after more info. You have told docker to write directly to the root of your pool cache (/mnt/cache) without defining any share (like /mnt/cache/sharename) You need to stop docker and remove all files and folders created by docker and change the path to the actual share you want. Create a share named "docker". Set cache as primary, no secondary. Change Docker directory from /mnt/cache/ to /mnt/user/docker These has to be removed. Folders: /mnt/cache/buildkit/ /mnt/cache/containerd/ /mnt/cache/containers/ /mnt/cache/image/ /mnt/cache/network/ /mnt/cache/overlay2/ /mnt/cache/plugins/ /mnt/cache/runtimes/ /mnt/cache/swarm/ /mnt/cache/tmp/ /mnt/cache/unraid/ /mnt/cache/volumes/ Files: /mnt/cache/unraid-autostart /mnt/cache/unraid-update-status.json /mnt/cache/engine-id

The user is doing something wrong when we get warnings in syslog? Nah. This just started to happen very frequently compared to before. I have the same use pattern since years. Something has changed. I use one session at a time as usual. Then sure, you could open two tabs in some cases when needed (like copying data between templates etc) but it should absolutely be able to handle that. I don't buy the "You're holding it wrong"-thing. 😉

I'm not getting that warning anymore. Don't know what changed but I like it. ;) I do have Unraid Connect plugin installed. Edit: Jinxed it... Jan 4 04:26:20 Server php-fpm[9243]: [WARNING] [pool www] server reached max_children setting (50), consider raising it

Set log open file events to yes.

You can't find it there. Plugins - Install Plugin. Enter URL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dlandon/file.activity-next/master/file.activity-next.plg Install.