February 14, 201115 yr Hi, I have an unRaid 4.7 array with 6 disks (including parity). 4 User shares are defined, all shares are defined as High-water, split level 1 and no excluded disks. When I browse to //tower from Windows (Win7 64Bit), I see disk1-disk5 as shares as well as the defined user shares + the flash drive at the top tower level. When I browse to each of the top level disk shares I see user shares defined in them and in each user share the files in that share. Some of the disks shares don't show all of the defined user shares and one of them (disk4-320GB) doesn't show any shares nor any files in it. When I look in the main unMenu web utility (awsome tool BTW) that disk is shown as virtually free (1% Used), 3 of the other disks (320GB) are over 97% full and the fifth one (1TB) is half full. Is this OK? I always thought that (a) user shares should exist on all the disks and (b) files should be better distributed across the disks. Obviously I must've thought wrong. Can anyone help clarify this for me? Thanks.
February 15, 201115 yr Author No help here? Not even - "this is normal for unRaid"? C'mon guys, please.
February 15, 201115 yr Shares are created on disk as they are needed. The filling your seeing my be normal for high-water.
February 15, 201115 yr No help here? Not even - "this is normal for unRaid"? C'mon guys, please. I suggest you read the wiki section on User Shares, specifically the subsection on Allocation Methods. That should help explain things. The way unRAID fills the disks is based on a combination of split levels, allocation methods, and included/excluded disks. You didn't indicate these settings in your post.
February 15, 201115 yr The way unRaid distributes files and folders over the different disks very much depends on your split level and directory structure. Explaining how your directories are structured would come a long way in explaining why unRaid distributes your data this way.
February 15, 201115 yr The way unRaid distributes files and folders over the different disks very much depends on your split level and directory, AND ALLOCATION METHOD See here http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Allocation_method
February 15, 201115 yr Author aiden: I did indicate allocation, split level and excluded disks in the OP From all of the above and the wiki section I gather that the 1T disk (Disk5) will continue to be filled until the free space (currently 528MB) will fall below 320MB (the amount of free disk space on Disk4). I'll wait and see. Thanks again to all of you.
February 15, 201115 yr aiden: I did indicate allocation, split level and excluded disks in the OP Sorry. I read your post twice and I somehow missed it. The way unRaid distributes files and folders over the different disks very much depends on your split level and directory, AND ALLOCATION METHOD See here http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Allocation_method It's like I posted in stealth mode or something. I suggest you read the wiki section on User Shares, specifically the subsection on Allocation Methods. That should help explain things. The way unRAID fills the disks is based on a combination of split levels, allocation methods, and included/excluded disks.
February 15, 201115 yr Author Aiden: 4 User shares are defined, all shares are defined as High-water, split level 1 and no excluded disks. Thanks again.
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