Noah Tatum Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Looking for some advice on the best strategy for my server cache. Today, I have a cache pool which is 2x 512GB and 1x 1TB SSDs in btrfs. It's not awesome because I have my container appdata on the cache as well as some VMs. Any time I download anything to the cache, it quickly fills up faster than the mover can keep up. SO, I want to increase my cache pool. My thought is to buy 2 more 1TB SSDs and replace the 2x 512GB SSDs in the pool. Would it be possible to then use one or more of the 512GB SSDs for a download-only cache? I wouldn't mind striping them together if possible because it would JUST be more temporary data. From what I read, you can't have more than one cache pool in unRAID, but even if there was some way to pass the drive into a container, that would work for my purposes. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Noah Tatum said: From what I read, you can't have more than one cache pool in unRAID That has not been the case for a while now. You can have multiple pools, each with their own filesystem, so you could have a single XFS disk pool, a single BTRFS disk pool, a RAID0 BTRFS pool, a RAID1 BTRFS pool, etc. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Multiple Pools are available for two years now, with 6.9. Quote Link to comment
Noah Tatum Posted August 27, 2022 Author Share Posted August 27, 2022 Thanks for the info! Guess I was looking at old information. Will go ahead and get some new SSDs and separate my Container data from the temporary data. Quote Link to comment
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