Janus Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Hi, Tonight, I configured a UnRAID VM on my VMWare to test, practice, view how UnRAID manage disk addition and other things we may want to do. For this, I assigned couple of 2Gb disks to my array. I started to copy a .mkv file to fill my array. UnRAID was unable to copy the file. It failed whern the first 2Gb disk has been filled. Seems logic if you keep in mind that an array is only many "independent" disk working together to "virtualize" them into a share. Wich means that the biggest file I can place into my array depend of the biggest disk into the Array. (Assuming it is empty) Am I right or I missed something ? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Yep, since each disk has an independent file system, they don't even have to be the same format, it follows that each file must reside wholly on an individual disk, no splitting files across volumes. Quote Link to comment
S80_UK Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) @Janus This is also why you have the "Minimum Free Space" setting for a share. It causes Unraid to write to another disk if the first does not have enough space for the file. It also looks at the disks allocated to a share (if set) and the allocation method to determine when to start writing to different disks. Edited February 27, 2021 by S80_UK Quote Link to comment
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