January 6, 20233 yr I just received a utilization warning for Drive 1 from Unraid. I don't think I've ever had one before. I took a look and as you can see below, something doesn't feel right. All data seems to be loading up on Drive 1 and I can't figure out why. I've had Unraid I think running for over a decade and I'm sort of stickler for leaving everything at default. Basically, I'm not going into Unraid and asking it to put specific data on a specific drive or anything like that. I've always let Unraid decide that for me. Is this normal, and if not, is there something I should do to resolve it? tower-diagnostics-20230106-1206.zip
January 6, 20233 yr Community Expert Solution The default is high-water, if a share is set to say split between disk1 and disk2 it'll start writing on disk2 once free space on disk1 is less than half the free space of disk2. So looking at that screenshot if it was the case above it'd start writing on disk2 pretty soon, seems normal. Edited January 6, 20233 yr by Kilrah
January 6, 20233 yr You can read about the different allocation methods here: https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Shares#Allocation_method
January 6, 20233 yr Author 8 minutes ago, Kilrah said: The default is high-water, if a share is set to say split between disk1 and disk2 it'll start writing on disk2 once free space on disk1 is less than half the free space of disk2. So looking at that screenshot if it was the case above it'd start writing on disk2 pretty soon, seems normal. So if I'm reading this correctly, my Disk 2 has 2 TB of free space. Half that is 1 TB. Once Disk 1 reaches 1 TB of free space it will start to fall over to Disk 2. Is that accurate? If that is accurate, then I guess this is all normal, which is awesome news.
January 6, 20233 yr Community Expert 21 minutes ago, JP said: So if I'm reading this correctly, my Disk 2 has 2 TB of free space. Half that is 1 TB. Once Disk 1 reaches 1 TB of free space it will start to fall over to Disk 2. Is that accurate? Yep, assuming high-water is selected.
January 6, 20233 yr Author 1 minute ago, JorgeB said: Yep, assuming high-water is selected. Thank you! Yes, High-Water is selected for all my shares.
January 6, 20233 yr Author 14 minutes ago, trurl said: Thanks for this. I guess I need to bite the bullet and find a way to get away from REISERFS. These instructions should help me. Thanks again.
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