February 4, 200818 yr Hi, my unRAID system is on it's way from Lime Tec. and I'm currently reading the docs how to work with it. There's one thing I don't understand: 1.) Several discs are "included" for the "user share=videos". 2.) "Split level=2" 3.) "Allocation method=Most free" I usually use the following disc organization: videos/09/12 Monkeys/... videos/09/300/... ... videos/A/A Hard Days Night/... videos/A/At First/... ... According to the docs unRAID with split-level=2 will place the letters (09, A, ...) on one of the included discs and keep everything below the letter on the same disc. My questions are: a.) What happens if one of the letters needs more than one disc? b.) Should I change to "split level=3"? But if I do so, will unRAID put these letters on more than 1 disc? (If I look at the disc shares, what folders will I see?) As you see I'm completely missing one point here. Can please somebody shed some lights on this? Many thanks in advance. Harald
February 5, 200818 yr Yes, "split-level" concept is very confusing - even confuses me all the time and I wrote it In your organization, you indeed want split-level 2. This says, "any object created in the first or second level directory will be allocated to a disk according to the allocation method, but objects created in a third or lower level directory will be created on the disk where the parent directory exists." Still confusing, right? :'( I'll put it this way: if you create a new directory under "videos/A", (such as "videos/A/Alien") and the disk allocation algorithms says it's time to move to another disk, then the system will create the "videos" and then the "videos/A" directories on the new disk, and then create the original object (ie, the "Alien" directory). Make sense?
February 5, 200818 yr Author I'll put it this way: if you create a new directory under "videos/A", (such as "videos/A/Alien") and the disk allocation algorithms says it's time to move to another disk, then the system will create the "videos" and then the "videos/A" directories on the new disk, and then create the original object (ie, the "Alien" directory). Thanks for your fast answer. I see. So if I use split level=2 the disc shares might show something like this: disc1/videos/09/12 Monkeys disc1/videos/09/300 disc1/videos/A/A Hard Days Night *** disc1 possibly full disc2/videos/A/At Last That would be great. Many thanks. Harald
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