JustOverride

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  1. Yea you're right. I guess I'll have to look for another way to have a "recently read/access cache" some other way. Either way, I think the mover should be updated with some of the functionalities mentioned above. This would open many doors for UNRAID.
  2. Visiting the CPU Isolation page triggers the warning at the top "CPU Isolation: A reboot is required to apply changes" even though no changes were made. Literally, just click on the settings triggers this warning and only way to get rid of it is to reset.
  3. This! I will probably be buying 2-3 more licenses myself. A discount would be nice, but if not its fine. I L O V E lifetime software purchases.
  4. Took 3 reads but I got it. I like your idea because I could then use this idea to implement something I've been wanting to do as linked above. Question, how is the age restriction suggested specified? Is it age since it was copied to unraid, last moved, or...? I would also like to add the option to "copy/overwrite" (with last modified) instead of move just in case the files being moved need to be duplicated for security purposes. "Pool 1 is raid 0, pool 2 is raid 1 / or disk array". You're correct, this can be rather confusing to some users as you mentioned. Maybe the current normal mover should stay how it is, and this could added as "advance mover settings". PS: We're totally not hijacking your thread Ed 😆
  5. And for a better notifier when the mover is working. also.. cough 😁
  6. Not yet, still have it disabled. I'm waiting for the new version, 6.9, to try again and check.
  7. I was actually about to request the same feature. In my use scenario, my server would have a lot of reads during the day, and maybe a handful of writes (as to when I move files to the server) and most of which aren't big enough to get my small SSD to half use. My cache doesn't see much use outside of that as I'm running the VM's on another SSD (as most people here). I would like to be able to select a folder and its sub-folders to be cached, maybe even the same disks that I've already have cache active on would work. (Allow exclusion folders to be selected? Auto exclude if (folder size greater than X limit OR files/folder + current cached size > limit/available space? IDK). If I play a song from an album located in one of the selected cache folders, I would like that the song and all of the other songs in the folder and sub-folders to be copied to the cache and then played from there. After an specified amount of time, 3? days, if they have not been accessed (file opened) then the cached files should be simply deleted from the SSD. This should just be an update part of mover, the files would still live in the Array. If I add a new file to this folder, it would just work as it does now, except that as I just recently "Accessed" the folder (to add the song), the mover would only copy it to the array at the normal specified time currently in the settings but leave it in the SSD. Another option to add to this would be a space limit to allow for this feature, perhaps a certain %. This would make better use of the cache IMO. Keep the drives from spinning up more and therefore life longer, maybe. A great performance boost to recently accessed files while keeping them safe. Lower I/O access usage. Allow for better and/or un-interrupted use of recent files/projects during a parity-check.
  8. I've wanted to ask if you've done any testing with a 4T or higher SSD, and how did it turned out? Any SSD's you would recommend for Parity? I appear to have a bottleneck on my parity drive and may need to upgrade to a faster drive, but if an SSD would safely work without issues I'll go with that.
  9. Was anyone able to resolve the issue were some games don't run like this?
  10. Has the list of upcoming features and update notes for 6.9 been released? I haven't seen them anywhere.
  11. I think we should have a 'Create Shares Shortcut' button. This should allow me to create a share shortcut without making a new share. I would also like to apply new permissions on this shortcut. Example of share tree below: Media share -> Movies -> Kids movies Lets say; My movies folder has all the movies genre's in it, and I would like to allow a kid's computer to only have view access to the movies in the kids section and nothing else. You could simply create shortcut from 'Media share -> Movies -> Kids movies' to new path 'Kids movies' and give simply keep the permissions from the parent share by default. On the Users tab is here is where you would simply selected the user who will be allowed to read or read/write. To keep the shortcut shares separate and easily visible from the originals, they should be on their own section below with an additional column showing where they point to. SpaceInvader shows how to create one which you can find the link below, but I believe this should just be a nice button in the GUI.
  12. I would like to request the ability to log performance CPU/RAM usage for dockers/VM's/Unraid. This way, we can see how much they use on average and what they use/need when they peak. With this information it would help the user to properly assign cores by workload for optimal performance.
  13. As said above, we would need more details. However, if you're referring to the flashing process itself it SHOULD be pretty straight forward. It sounds like you've done plenty of research. If so, you should be able to do it within 1-2 hours. The process is pretty straight forward. If you can't get it to flash the reason can be from the card not being able to be flashes by your hardware or the card itself its soft 'locked' to not allow flashing to IT. I read that somewhere. Either way, I would strongly advice to save the large amount of time you're going to waste trying to figure this out as in the end it may still not work. I ultimately also returned the LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i and purchase the LSI 9217-8i 6Gbs SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA FW. The seller below has this cards cheap, and already updated to the latest software and in IT mode. I've purchased 2 of them, they are perfect! https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-9217-8i-6Gbs-SAS-PCI-E-3-0-HBA-FW-P20-IT-Mode-For-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID-US/143469435983?hash=item216771dc4f:g:Pv0AAOSw1ABd8eP6
  14. If you're having issues with your pfSense only seen 1 port, then do the following. 1) If you're looking for a guide go click here. 2) Once you are in part 3 of the SpaceInvader video to edit the XML do the follow: A. Remove the following code, the 'interface'. B. Go to the bottom section and make sure the BUS and the SLOT is the same for the 4 'pci' ports as the 'pci' from the FIRST port. C. ADD "multifunction='on'" to the FIRST PCI (port). D. Make sure the Functions starting with 0, go in increasing number. Example 0,1,2,3.
  15. Thanks so much for the info. I'll get on it this afternoon!
  16. I'm getting the error below: I think this is my cache drive, but I'm not sure and I'm also not sure on how to proceed with this. I recently had purchased bad RAM which caused many issues with UNRAID and corrupted 2 files which I just deleted after replacing the RAM. Apparently there is still some damage. Could you guys also take a quick look at my diagnostic file to see if anything else aside from the error above is damage/broken that I may have missed? Thank you! (edit) I scrub the cache drive and came back with no errors found. Also, I'd like to note that I originally had 4x4GB sticks, then upgraded to 4x8GB sticks. First set was bad which caused issues, then I changed it and the second set is working great. I've also ran a full 4 sets of Memtest86 to confirm.
  17. I appreciate the help! The new card works right away, in IT mode, I disabled OpROM and that pesky delay went away and UNRAID booted. All drives detected. I'm going to go ahead and call this a win. Anyone looking at this in the future, I would simply suggest getting a card that already comes with IT mode. Not worth the 10-20$ in savings.
  18. That sounds what I will probably do. UNRAID should still boot fine from the USB without problem though right?
  19. @BensonYea, after the first 'sas2flash.efi -o -e 6' nothing has actually worked after that, other than 'sas2flash.efi -listall' to see it. I literally been on this for about a week now and I'm done with this card. I bought and installed a LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i and is currently in FW Revision 18, already in IT mode. It did cost me $20 more; However the original is still within the return time frame so I will be returning it. I don't know about you, but when its been over a week and someone still can't flash a firmware, I would go ahead and call that defective. I think the latest version is 20, am I save to stay with the version it came in? Like security/issues wise? (edit) Man, I do kinda want to remove at least the ROM so I don't have to wait extra time booting up.. I know I'm being picky.
  20. This is not working. It is asking that a firmware hostboot is required, and to enter one. I try entering the file name for the firmware and it throws an error. "selected adapter does not have valid firmware! Please run utility again and flash firmware. due to error remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to process commands. exiting sas2flash." Tried flashing again, and no dice.
  21. I don't have the specific details as to what it does, other than it fixes an issue with the kernel for the GPU and other devices passthro. I can only speculate to be honest. I'm just happy the issue was fixed.
  22. Isn't the address something that is set after the firmware update? I kinda don't wanna keep trying to remove stuff from it but at this point I guess I'll try it. If this doesn't work out I may try the SAS 9207-8i as it appears to come pre-flashed to IT. However, I would like to know which card is better for unraid and/or overall, the SAS 9207-8i or the LSI 9211-8i?
  23. I have tried using a different keyboard, and changing the flash file to "it.bin" in case the issue was being caused by being too long or by the numbers and no luck. I've also try to use 'sas2flash.efi -o -f it.bin' and 'sas2flash.efi -o -b mptsas2.rom'. I still get the syntax error. Any other suggestions?
  24. I bought a LSI 9211-8i and I've been trying to flash it using my x79 motherboard, and following a few guides like the ones below: https://nguvu.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/ https://nullsec.us/raid-on-home-esxi-lab/ The one that got me the farthest is the last one as I have to use UEFI. I've gotten all the way till the "fs0:/> sas2flash.efi -o -e 6" command; However, the "sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118ir.bin" (I'm not trying to install the .rom) isn't working. Even if I do it with the full "sas2flash.efi -o -f 2118ir.bin -b mptsas2.rom" command. I have my server up and can't turn it off as it will brick the card. Please advice what I should do here. Another question, which card is better for unraid and/oir overall, the SAS 9207-8i already flashed to IT or the LSI 9211-8i? I also get this after I try to do these other things...