May 25, 201115 yr Hello all - I have my Movies collection split up into several user shares each having a different subset of disks. Is there a way to consolidate all these shares into one "Movies" share using smb-extra.conf? It seems like you can only specify one path per share. Thanks!
May 25, 201115 yr I have my Movies on one share, with split level 0, spanning a few different disks. Do split level 0, and you can define the folders on which disk you want them to reside, and it'll do it automatically. Movies (user share -- create this at root of all drives you want/have movies) --HD (under "Movies" directory on disk1) --SD (under "Movies" directory on disk2) --etc...
May 25, 201115 yr Author I have my Movies on one share, with split level 0, spanning a few different disks. Do split level 0, and you can define the folders on which disk you want them to reside, and it'll do it automatically. Movies (user share -- create this at root of all drives you want/have movies) --HD (under "Movies" directory on disk1) --SD (under "Movies" directory on disk2) --etc... Yah, originally I had it like this. However, I split them up on several user shares because I put them in some alphabetical bins [e.g. A-F] which spanned different sets of disks. I'm using Joe L.'s spinup when accessed script which only spins the disks defined in a share. Unfortunately, if I had one large Movies share, I would lose the capability to spin subsets of disks.
May 25, 201115 yr I have one large movies share with spin up groups disabled. I then use Joe's cache_dirs script to keep directory listings in the server's RAM, which mitigates unnecessary spin ups. When I play browse my movies from my HTPC and choose one to play, only the disk that contains that movie spins up. I specifically chose unRAID to get away from dividing my movies into A-F etc. and from dividing them up by HD, SD, etc. Personally, I don't see the appeal to these organizational systems, but of course everyone likes different levels of control.
May 25, 201115 yr You're right--I don't know why I did HD, SD--as it's just one more level to keep organized. And Jukeboxes like YAMJ categorize your movies into SD, 576p, 720p, 1080p anyways. I need to remove this way of thinking But I'll definitely keep my FLAC and iTunes/MP3 directories separate! Thanks for the idea about disabling spinup groups. I do have the cache_dirs script running via go. Do you use any other flags/commands other than the '-w' one?
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