Restarting didn't help.

 

Folder is named "Yet another folder".

 

Anything else i can try?

What do you get from the command line with this?

ls -lah /mnt

and this?

ls -lah /mnt/test

 

root@Tower:~# ls -lah /mnt
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 21 root   root   420 Dec 11 08:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root   root   440 Dec 11 08:02 ../
drwxrwxrwx  4 nobody users   36 Dec 11 08:12 disk1/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   16 Dec 11 08:12 disk10/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk11/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk12/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   28 Dec 11 08:12 disk13/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk14/
drwxrwxrwx  4 nobody users   58 Dec 11 08:12 disk15/
drwxrwxrwx 14 nobody users 4.0K Dec 11 08:12 disk2/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk3/
drwxrwxrwx  4 nobody users   43 Dec 11 08:12 disk4/
drwxrwxrwx  7 nobody users  100 Dec 11 08:12 disk5/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   16 Dec 11 08:12 disk6/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk7/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk8/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Dec 11 08:12 disk9/
drwxrwxrwt  7 nobody users  140 Dec 11 08:02 disks/
drwxrwxrwt  2 nobody users   40 Dec 11 07:35 remotes/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   32 Dec 11 08:12 test/
drwxrwxrwx  1 nobody users   36 Dec 11 08:12 user/
root@Tower:~# ls -lah /mnt/test
total 0
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody   users  32 Dec 11 08:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 root     root  420 Dec 11 08:02 ../
drwxrwxrwx  2 myusername users  37 Dec 11 08:20 Yet\ another\ folder/
root@Tower:~#
 

Edited December 11, 20214 yr by steve1977

Happy new year!

 

Any new and more thoughts?

Still hoping for some advice here. Unraid runs so well, but it annoys me that I cannot use the folders on my cache disk as user shares. Would really love to fix this. Thanks!

Probably time to post new diagnostics so we can see the current state of things?   A screenshot for the share settings of one you want on the pool might be a good idea as well. It is almost certainly going to be something very simple once we spot it  

Agree. It should be simple.

 

For example, I am still not sure whether I get the nomenclature right. I always thought "pool devices" and "UD" behave the same. Are "pool devices" even possible to be part of a user share. See below screenshots from my pool device and related info, Hope this creates some transparency. Attached also a new diagnostic log.

 

 

 

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20220115-2012.zip

 

14 minutes ago, steve1977 said:

Are "pool devices" even possible to be part of a user share.

Yes - that is the big advantage they have over UD devices

 

Have you even tried to set up a share and told it to use a pool?   Your screenshot of the shares tab suggests that none of those shares have been told to use a pool for caching purposes  

I had before, but let me do it again and post plenty of screenshots to visualize what I am doing.

 

I thought that user shares are created automatically? At least that's how it works for all my folder on the array. I create a folder on any disk on the array and it turns into a user share. As you can see from my screenshots above, the folders on my pool device do not show up under user shares,

 

What I have done now is to create a folder with the same name on the array (on disk 2). I then changed the user share setting to include the cache. When I access the folder on user share, the file in the folder on the pool device does not show up. See screenshots below:

 

 

 

That is expected!   You will only get a folder for that share on the pool if there are any files for the share currently on the pool.  It will get created on the pool when copying a file to the share if the share settings indicate this is appropriate.  It can also be removed from the pool by mover if all files for the share have been moved to the main array.

 

Normally User shares are created via the Shares tab as that is the only place you can link them to a pool.    The fact that a User Share can also get created automatically by creating a top level folder at the right location is a quirk of the current implementation of User Shares and not something you should rely on (although you also want to be aware it can happen).

 

I am not sure I get it, I have now tried to add it manually by "add share". Still not showing the file.

 

 

 

Still looking for smart idea to understand what's wrong with my cache disk.

Try not naming shares with embedded spaces or other special characters

I renamed the folder on my pool disk to "Yet". Still no luck. Btw, how can I delete the manually created user share?

check the box to delete

Got it, done.

 

I renamed the folder to 'yet". Still does not show up. Also added manually, still no luck.

Have you written any files to the share since you recreated it?

Yes, still not seeing it

I know we've been here before but...

 

What do you get from command line with this?

ls -lah /mnt/user

 

Here we go (this is the manually created one):

 

drwxrwxrwx  1 nobody   users    6 Jan 21 23:11 Yet/

 

After deleting the manually created user share, "Yet/" does not show up in the list.

 

 

Does this help with troubleshooting and anything else I can help provide?

And what do you get from command line with this?

ls -lah /mnt

 

Thanks. Here we go:

 

root@Tower:~# ls -lah /mnt
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 21 root   root   420 Feb  1 18:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root   root   440 Feb  7 03:02 ../
drwxrwxrwx  4 nobody users   36 Feb  1 18:37 disk1/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   16 Feb  1 18:35 disk10/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:35 disk11/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:35 disk12/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   28 Feb  1 18:35 disk13/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:35 disk14/
drwxrwxrwx  4 nobody users   58 Feb  1 18:35 disk15/
drwxrwxrwx 16 nobody users 4.0K Feb  1 18:37 disk2/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:37 disk3/
drwxrwxrwx  6 nobody users  232 Feb  1 18:37 disk4/
drwxrwxrwx  7 nobody users  100 Feb  1 18:35 disk5/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   16 Feb  1 18:35 disk6/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:35 disk7/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:35 disk8/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   20 Feb  1 18:35 disk9/
drwxrwxrwt  7 nobody users  140 Feb  1 18:25 disks/
drwxrwxrwt  2 nobody users   40 Feb  1 18:24 remotes/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   17 Feb  1 18:35 test/
drwxrwxrwx  1 nobody users   36 Feb  1 18:37 user/

That all looks correct and like an earlier post. There was something in that earlier post that I'm not sure about though so lets try it again.

 

What do you get from the command line with this?

ls -lah /mnt/test