I am trying to use my cache drive. I am writing to the shares and on that share I have Use Cache Disk to Yes.  I have even rebooted.  I am not sure why it isn't working but all of my writes are not occurring on the cache drive?  Any thoughts on what could be going on and what to check?

 

I wonder if I have the wrong min disk space free option set (too high)  It is currently 60000000000 which I believe is 60 gigs.  Probably too high but still shouldn't affect files smaller than 60 gigs from going to the cache drive? 

 

The drive is new and totally free in terms of available space.

 

Thanks,

 

Neil

 

If you goto shares and enable the disk shares then you'll be able to see if data is being written to the cache drive or not.

I enabled it under each share.  I am getting the following in logs:

 

 

Jul 24 00:47:04 Storage shfs: cache disk full

 

 

This is impossible because:

 

Device Model/Serial Mounted File System Temp Size Used %Used Free

/dev/sda1 WDC_WD2002FAEX-007BA0_WD-WMAY00638319 /mnt/cache * 2.00T 33.63M 1% 2.00T

I wonder if I have the wrong min disk space free option set (too high)  It is currently 60000000000 which I believe is 60 gigs.  Probably too high but still shouldn't affect files smaller than 60 gigs from going to the cache drive? 

 

Min free is in K, so 60GB would be 60000000.

 

Yes, units ought to be mentioned somewhere on the page.

I think the problem is I didn't set a min free space for each share just for the cache drive?  Any thoughts on this.  The min space thing isn't very intuitive.  I was just reading other threads about it and I don't know if it is because it is so late but I don't quite get it?

 

Neil

 

Apparently that was the problem although I set it for what I think is 20 gigs from another thread and had to restart the array to get it to start working.  Boy do write occur MUCH faster....

 

Thanks! and I would love some clarification on the min disk space.  In the morning I will research further.

 

Thanks!

 

Neil