trurl Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 1 hour ago, steve1977 said: called Pool I wouldn't have chosen that name since the word already has a meaning in Unraid, but maybe it will be OK. Your user shares seem broken, no /mnt/user0. Post a screenshot of the User Shares page. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Do you think me calling it "pool" broke it? The user share page looks good. All user shares are shown. But only those from disk shares and not the one from the pool device. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 I restarted Unraid and now the appdata folder shows up in user shares. What is odd that "domains" still shows as "prefer:cache" instead of "prefer:pool" although I don't have a pool disk (it's unassigned). Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Actually not. It is still broken... No folder from the pool disk shows up under user shares. Upon restart, Unraid recreated an appdata folder on a different drive and that's why I thought it solved it. It seems there are a few issues now: * Folders on my pool disk do not show up under user share * After re-adding a docker, all settings have been lost Any thoughts. I am attaching yet another diagnostics log, just in case. tower-diagnostics-20211015-0916.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 It's difficult to make much sense of the shares folder in your diagnostics, because you have a lot of .cfg files that probably don't correspond to any user share. Perhaps you accidentally created some of those shares at some time. Plus, since it appears that user shares are broken, many if not all of them say they don't exist. I haven't checked them all since there are 149 of them. Take a look at the config/shares folder on your flash drive and you will see what I mean. Another thing I noticed is that you seem to be sharing disks on the network. I don't recommend that and it is usually not necessary, though it might be useful for some things if you don't know how to work with files directly on the server instead of over the network. Just be sure you know not to work with disk and user shares at the same time. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Thanks. I only have around 20 user shares (maybe even less). No idea why it shows 100+. I know the risk of showing both disk and user shares, so don’t copy among them. I like both as i do some manual clean-up copying things from one disk to another disk. I do this within a windows vm. The user share is needed for my radarr and plex dockers as library folders. User shares seem to work on all array disks, but not from the “pool device”. I’m still confused that i have a cache device with no disk allocated to it. And you can see from the screenshots above that cache is still somehow used by unraid. Any idea how to fix my unraid again? It’s now really broken as my dockers don’t work. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Why did you remove cache? I thought the idea was to add another pool for docker/VM. If you only want one pool it might as well be "cache". On 10/6/2021 at 10:08 AM, trurl said: I have a "cache" pool for caching user share writes, and a "fast" pool for fast access of files for docker and other things. I have my appdata, domains, and system shares on the fast pool, and set to stay on the fast pool. That way dockers/VMs perform better and don't keep array disks spinning, since these files are always open. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 What's the difference between "cache" and "pool"? Why do both exist? You suggesting that I now eliminate the pool device and add the same disk as pool? I removed it because I thought UD is a better / cleaner solution. Also didn't like it being called "cache", which implied something that I was not using it for. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 I removed the pool device and added the disk as cache disk. Still facing issues. Maybe some bug? See below screenshot referring to the pool device although it was removed: Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 1 hour ago, steve1977 said: I removed the pool device and added the disk as cache disk. Still facing issues. Maybe some bug? See below screenshot referring to the pool device although it was removed: Did you remember to change the 'appdata' share settings to no longer refer to 'Pool'? Note that t is quite valid with the 'Prefer' setting to refer to a non-existent pool that you might later add to the system. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Yes, it points to cache, but shows pool in the overview. If you check one of my earlier posts with screenshots, there was the same inconsistency. Setting is XXX, but overview says YYY. Maybe a bug? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 24 minutes ago, steve1977 said: Yes, it points to cache, but shows pool in the overview. If you check one of my earlier posts with screenshots, there was the same inconsistency. Setting is XXX, but overview says YYY. Maybe a bug? Well the last Diagnostics you posted had it set to pool? maybe you should delete all the superfluous .cfg files on the flash drive in the config/shares folder that refer to Shares you do not/no longer have and then post new Diagnostics so we can check this out. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 I seem to recall there might be a bug if you have an empty pool, such as cache, and then another pool after that. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 I jo longer have pool, but the disk is allocated to cache. Still same issue (screenshot above). Any idea of a “fix” that i can get my docker back. Unraid is broken for me now Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 Same issue with files on cache drive not showing up under user share. tower-diagnostics-20211016-0249.zip Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 Maybe one interesting observation that can help point to the issue. When I select a usershare (e.g., Movies) and go to the settings. I can select a drop-down menu called "included disks". This allows me to select/unselect all disks that are part of the array. It does not allow me to select the cache disk. Are you sure that folders on the cache disk can be included in a user share? Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 See below from global sharing setting. Cache / pool disk doesn't show up in the list. Are you sure that cache/pool disks can be part of user shares? Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 Any thoughts on above? I removed both cache & pool devices. And re-added a new one. Tried different disks and also different names. But under no circumstances, the folders from the pool device show up as user share. You sure it is feasible and any idea what I can do to further troubleshoot? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 On 10/16/2021 at 6:39 AM, steve1977 said: See below from global sharing setting. Cache / pool disk doesn't show up in the list. Are you sure that cache/pool disks can be part of user shares? All pool devices are automatically part of User Shares if the top level folder relating to that share exists on a pool so no idea why they should not show up for you. You can only limit array devices as to whether they can be part of the User Share sub-system. It might be worth toggling the setting for User Shares off, apply it and then change it back to Yes. It should make no difference but can do no harm to try. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 What you mean by "if the top level folder relating to that share exists on a pool"? I only tried with one pool device (called test). The folder called "appdata" only exists on this pool device. Let me try to toggle on and off. It is really odd that it doesn't work. Shall I delete all cfg files from the flash disk. Will it remap existing user shares from the array upon restart? Thanks again. Would really love to get this working. It's a huge benefit to have pool devices being user shares. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 hour ago, steve1977 said: Shall I delete all cfg files from the flash disk. Will it remap existing user shares from the array upon restart You could do that, although not sure it would help. Unraid would then automatically create a User Share for each top level folder on any drive, and this share would have default Settings (so you would need to check they were what you want). Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 It may be the easiest way to delete cfg files. I understand that my diagnostic file is not as good to read for you as it is bloated with all dated cfg files. Let me fix this and send a new diagnostic file. Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 Just deleted the cfg files and also untoggled and toggled on user shares. Still not showing up. Attached an updated diagnostic log. Any additional thoughts? tower-diagnostics-20211018-2130.zip Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 Sorry to follow up, but really love to get this solved. Any more insights after me deleting the cfg files and the updated diagnostic file? Quote Link to comment
steve1977 Posted October 30, 2021 Author Share Posted October 30, 2021 Any more ideas? This bug is really troubling me. Any idea how to make pool devices part of my user shares? Quote Link to comment
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