joshbgosh10592 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 (edited) Kind of confusing, but I'm having an issue where I try to copy a file from a share A that is set to only use cache pool A, to share B that uses cache pool B, but mover moves files to the array. Cache A is RAID5 NVME SSDs and Cache B is RAID1 NVME SSDs. When I use Windows (so, SMB) to copy from share A to share B, the copy writes directly to the array disks, which are HDDs, thus making the copy process MUCH slower. Is this expected behavior? I originally was using Share A via unassigned devices and I wrote to the cache of share B but wanted to be able to control it natively. Edited August 20, 2021 by joshbgosh10592 Corrected second sentence to say Cache A/B instead of Share A/B. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post in this thread. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Currently the mover doesn't move data from pool to pool, only pool to array or array to pool. Quote Link to comment
joshbgosh10592 Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 19 hours ago, trurl said: Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post in this thread. Thank you! Here it is. So this isn't expected behavior then? 16 hours ago, JorgeB said: Currently the mover doesn't move data from pool to pool, only pool to array or array to pool. I know, this is me manually moving files from one share (cache only) to another share (cache enabled, using a different cache pool than original.) Thank you though nas-diagnostics-20210819-1917.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Do these files already exist on the array? If you are overwriting files that already exist on the array then it will overwrite the files directly on the array without caching so there will only be one version of the file in the share. Quote Link to comment
joshbgosh10592 Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 24 minutes ago, trurl said: Do these files already exist on the array? If you are overwriting files that already exist on the array then it will overwrite the files directly on the array without caching so there will only be one version of the file in the share. Nope, they're new files to Share B. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Can you give the actual name of the shares and pools just to help make better sense of what you are doing and how it relates to the settings in your Diagnostics? Quote Link to comment
joshbgosh10592 Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 I'd rather be slightly generic publicly on the share names (unless my explanation below doesn't make sense and it's just too confusing). Share A is named "T------s" in the configs (short term), and Share B is "M----s" (long term). When I'm done working the files in the short term share (Share A), I copy them to the long term (Share B). This is to prevent the spinning disks in Share B from constantly being awake (and bogged down by the work being performed. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 It doesn't look like your M----s share specifies which pool to use. Quote Link to comment
joshbgosh10592 Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 Just now, trurl said: It doesn't look like your M----s share specifies which pool to use. So, it's set to use the original cache pool from pre-6.9, however I renamed it once I created the other pools. Could the rename of the cache pool have screwed it up, even though the GUI says it's correct? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Try changing it then change it back and apply to see if that fixes it. You might take a look at your other shares that use that pool also since it looks like several of your shares don't have a pool specified in .cfg Quote Link to comment
joshbgosh10592 Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 Yup, that's exactly what happened. Inside the share settings, it shows what I want, but in the share overview, it shows the old share name (You can see where the new share (Share A) I created shows "Array_cache". I toggle it to another cache pool and back, and now I'm writing to the cache correctly (well, for some reason it's moving the files in and back out through the VM instead of just moving it within the NAS. Previously, I was able to move at around 200MB/s while putting no strain on the VM NIC (something like NFS Offload). I'm assuming that's just how I have the shares mapped in the VM?) Thank you!! Quote Link to comment
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