Shares showing they are protected even though they are only on a single cache SSD?

[eight-hour-enclosure5156]

I have 4 shares that are only on cache (an NVME SSD). It's a single SSD, so no redundancy. The appdata share shows the "unprotected" orange triangle as expected. However, the other three show protected. Is this a bug? Shouldn't all four show unprotected?

[itimpi]

1 hour ago, eight-hour-enclosure5156 said:

I have 4 shares that are only on cache (an NVME SSD). It's a single SSD, so no redundancy. The appdata share shows the "unprotected" orange triangle as expected. However, the other three show protected. Is this a bug? Shouldn't all four show unprotected?

they would only show as unprotected if they currently have files/folders on the unprotected storage.   My guess is that if you look carefully the ones shown as protected currently have their files on the main array.  If you post your system’s diagnostics zip file we would be able to confirm this.

[eight-hour-enclosure5156]

Interesting, so even though I set those shares as cache only, they may have files still sitting on the array?   Is this expected behavior?  I attached my diagnostics zip file

unraid-server-diagnostics-20231016-1732.zip

[itimpi]

Yes - the shares unexpectedly showing as protected have all their files on disk1 and appdata also has some files there.

 

Note that simply changing the primary storage to a pool and removing the secondary storage does NOT automatically transfer files onto the pool.  To get the files into the right location you will need to:

• stop docker and vm services under settings as these will stop any files they have open from being moved.
• for the shares you want to only be on a pool set the pool as primary storage and the array as secondary storage.
• set the mover direction to be array->pool
• manually run mover from the Main tab to get files moved onto the pool.
• when mover finishes you can remove the secondary storage=array as it is no longer needed
• re-enable docker and/or vm services
• (optional) enable the option to use Exclusive mode shares under Settings->Global share settings.   This gives better performance for shares with all files on a pool by by-passing Unraid’s fuse layer for such shares.

[eight-hour-enclosure5156]

This is great!  I was thinking this might work, so it's great to see you confirm.