July 16, 201114 yr On a totally new array, after assigning a parity drive plus some data drives via the gui, should I hit the format button FIRST, or start the array and immediately proceed with the parity sync? Either option is available and unraid won't complain or stop you doing the parity sync with unformatted drives (that's on 5.0beta8). But I wonder what the correct procedure is?
July 16, 201114 yr On a totally new array, after assigning a parity drive plus some data drives via the gui, should I hit the format button FIRST, or start the array and immediately proceed with the parity sync? Either option is available and unraid won't complain or stop you doing the parity sync with unformatted drives (that's on 5.0beta8). But I wonder what the correct procedure is? which version of beta8? On ALL unraid versions version prior to 8d, there is a bug where the parity calc and writes to the drives interfere with each other when upsizing a drive, but I know of no issue when initially calculating parity. It really does not make a difference. I'd assign one drive, format it, assign another, format it, etc. Formatting one at a time, since we've seen where multiple formats at the same time can run into deadlocks. Then, assign parity, calculate parity.. Then I'd load my data.
July 17, 201114 yr Author On a totally new array, after assigning a parity drive plus some data drives via the gui, should I hit the format button FIRST, or start the array and immediately proceed with the parity sync? Either option is available and unraid won't complain or stop you doing the parity sync with unformatted drives (that's on 5.0beta8). But I wonder what the correct procedure is? which version of beta8? On ALL unraid versions version prior to 8d, there is a bug where the parity calc and writes to the drives interfere with each other when upsizing a drive, but I know of no issue when initially calculating parity. It really does not make a difference. I'd assign one drive, format it, assign another, format it, etc. Formatting one at a time, since we've seen where multiple formats at the same time can run into deadlocks. Then, assign parity, calculate parity.. Then I'd load my data. 8c, 8d, 9 ... testing multiple simultaneous formattings at t he moment.
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