HI all

I got 3 Disks in my array and 1 parity drive.

However Im getting warnings of 1 disk filling up to 90%.

Any reason is not distributing it evenly?

Thanks

Just now, nekromantik said:

HI all

I got 3 Disks in my array and 1 parity drive.

However Im getting warnings of 1 disk filling up to 90%.

Any reason is not distributing it evenly?

Thanks

Probably due to the settings on your shares.

 

You are likely to get better informed feedback if you post your system’s diagnostics zip file.

attached

tower-diagnostics-20220126-2228.zip

You have a share anonymised as S—f with a Split Level setting of 2.   It is possible that this is constraining which disks can be used by this share depending on the full path of the files you are trying to put into it.    
 

it is always worth remembering that Split Level always wins any contention between share settings for which drives to use, so it is always one to check out first.

 

if it is not that perhaps you can give the exact path of files that are not being distributed across drives as expected.

9 minutes ago, itimpi said:

You have a share anonymised as S—f with a Split Level setting of 2.   It is possible that this is constraining which disks can be used by this share depending on the full path of the files you are trying to put into it.    
 

it is always worth remembering that Split Level always wins any contention between share settings for which drives to use, so it is always one to check out first.

 

if it is not that perhaps you can give the exact path of files that are not being distributed across drives as expected.

 

Ah

 

Well my file structure on that share is as follows:

 

Root/Folder1/Folder2/

 

but also

 

Root/Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/

34 minutes ago, nekromantik said:

 

Ah

 

Well my file structure on that share is as follows:

 

Root/Folder1/Folder2/

 

but also

 

Root/Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/

With a Split level of 2 anything starting at folder2 will be constrained to the disk where any folder at the folder2 level is first created.    In other words only the share/folder1 can exist on multiple drives.

15 minutes ago, itimpi said:

With a Split level of 2 anything starting at folder2 will be constrained to the disk where any folder at the folder2 level is first created.    In other words only the share/folder1 can exist on multiple drives.

Ah that makes sense. So I need to change it to 3 if I want it to spread folder 3 across the 3 drives.

It all depends on what you mean by ‘root’ in in an earlier post.    The Share name counts as one level, so if you meant root to refer to the Share name then you would need a value of 4 to allow folder3 to be on multiple drives.  If you meant folder1 to be the share name then you would need a value of 3.

12 hours ago, itimpi said:

It all depends on what you mean by ‘root’ in in an earlier post.    The Share name counts as one level, so if you meant root to refer to the Share name then you would need a value of 4 to allow folder3 to be on multiple drives.  If you meant folder1 to be the share name then you would need a value of 3.

Oh ok.

Thanks