I've come across an odd issue and I'm not sure if it's me being dense, or if I'm missing something in the logic of how the process works.

When using MC to move data between shares, it's not actually moving data.  It shows that it's moved to the share that I moved it to, but it hasn't physically moved it (verified both by looking directly on the disk, as well as "Recompute" in the share showing the data is still on the original disk. None of the data is ever touching the main array, only moving between cache pools (or specifically, shares on cache pools)

What I have;

 

The data I'm moving from is a /download share setup on a nvme as a "only" share, so the data should only be ever living on that nvme.

The disks I'm moving to is a 3 spindle RAID5 cache pool.  The share is /wd3xcache and is also set to "only", using that 3 spindle cache pool. It's the only share on that cache pool. 

Two separate cache pools, one share on each pool, simply moving data between the two shares.

If I use the RenMov command in MC, it shows the directory is moved between the shares, but the progress bar never comes up, it's simply instant (as the test file is 5GB, it shouldn't be instant).  If I *copy* the data between shares, I get the progress bar showing that it's copying at ~200MB/sec as I would expect.  If I use Windows to connect to the shares and move the directories, it moves as I would expect, though much slower as the workstation I'm using it only connected with a 1gbe network.

I'm embarking on a project of organizing a decade worth of unorganized data hoarding, so I'm trying to find the best route to move data within Unraid.

Edited April 20, 20224 yr by Brandon_K

Sounds like a manifestation of the behaviour described in this part of the online documentations accessible via the ‘Manual’ link at the bottom of the GUI.