June 13, 20215 yr I have been using Unraid for about a year now and today I have been sorting/moving some stuff. At some point my cache drive was full. Not a problem right? It should go to the array? But it does not seem to work, I thought it would automatically do that but perhaps I'm wrong and a full cache drive simply has never happend yet. My cache pool: (I cancelled the file transfer so I guess ~10gb will be removed soon) The share I am writing to: "Yes indicates that all new files and subdirectories should be written to the Cache disk/pool, provided enough free space exists on the Cache disk/pool. If there is insufficient space on the Cache disk/pool, then new files and directories are created on the array. When the mover is invoked, files and subdirectories are transferred off the Cache disk/pool and onto the array." So "if there is insufficient space the file will be created on the array". Right? Then why when I transfer a file through SMB I get a "There is not enough space on <share>"? Am I missing something? I will now run the mover which will most likely fix it but this simply seems strange to me. Thanks for any advice!
June 13, 20215 yr Community Expert The cache will only start being by-passed and the array selected for new files when the free space falls below the Minimum Free Space value. You should set that to be larger than the biggest file you expect to transfer for this to work as you want.
June 14, 20215 yr Author Great thanks I will try that! Probably had that set when testing unraid (as this is a case I've tested) but now it was set to 0 indeed.
April 27, 20251 yr Just to revive this, I am on 7.0.1. When the shares minimum free space is reached, the files just stop saving, they don't start saving to the array as one would assume (as per documentation). I'm frustrated/confused!
April 27, 20251 yr Community Expert 36 minutes ago, miicar said: shares minimum free space You need to set Minimum Free for the pool (cache) https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#minimum-free-space-for-a-pool Minimum Free for the share comes into play in a different situation https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/shares/user-shares/#minimum-free-space
April 28, 20251 yr Community Expert Review the docs: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/shares/ https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/shares/user-shares/ https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/shares/disk-shares/ https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/shares/network-access/
April 28, 20251 yr Community Expert 23 hours ago, miicar said: Just to revive this Attach Diagnostics ZIP to your NEXT post in this thread.
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