I am completely new to unraid and trying to confirm if I am understanding this OS correctly. The aspect I am getting most caught up on is the shares and mappings. I have gotten to the point I am at by following IBRACORP on youtube. 

 

 

1. When I look at my shares. As I am using a cache drive. Everything is written to the cache drive first. On the shares where the arrow goes from cache --> array. That means the data will be transferred to the array at the set scheduled time by my mover? and for the appdata where the arrow is pointing to cache means the data will stay on the cache drive but will allow data to be written to the array in the event the cache drive is full? Once space is then available on the cache drive the mover will move the data sitting on the array into the cache drive?b

 

 

2. Adding a path under a container (example below) is essentially just allowing that path to be visible to the container as containers do not have free access to see all shares? In my brain I keep trying to sort of make connections to how something works in unraid vs windows.  In my case I made a new share called data. So I basically had to tell the container about this share?

 

 

3. I decided to add a 2nd drive to my cache pool. I formatted the drive. increased the number of drives under the pool from 1 -> 2 and then selected the only available drive I could add to the pool. do I need to do anything else? Does unraid just automatically set it to mirror when there is only two drives?

Edited February 25, 20242 yr by BartyB

Welcome!

 

Sounds like you've done your homework.

 

I encourage you to take a look at the current documentation, not necessarily to read it all at once (some people like that sort of thing), but to familiarize yourself with how the documentation is arranged, and maybe pick up on some details you haven't discovered yet.

 

The current documentation is linked at top and bottom of the forum, and at the 'manual' link lower right corner of your Unraid webUI.