January 19, 201214 yr So I added 2 new drives without incident (4 and 5), precleared both, then added. Everything looks good with all disks running, no issues. The problem is, new files are still going to the first 3 drives. Not sure why this is. My share settings was initially setup with "included disks" blank, I went ahead and hard coded "disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5". Similarly, I went into each of my shares I want to spread across the raid and selected "disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5" for the included disks. No dice. The server has been rebooted several times since with no change. I'm considering running a parity check to see if that makes a difference but of course that's a 5 hours jobbie... Any thoughts?
January 19, 201214 yr So I added 2 new drives without incident (4 and 5), precleared both, then added. Everything looks good with all disks running, no issues. The problem is, new files are still going to the first 3 drives. Not sure why this is. My share settings was initially setup with "included disks" blank, I went ahead and hard coded "disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5". Similarly, I went into each of my shares I want to spread across the raid and selected "disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5" for the included disks. No dice. The server has been rebooted several times since with no change. I'm considering running a parity check to see if that makes a difference but of course that's a 5 hours jobbie... Any thoughts? It depends on the allocation method you have chosen and the Min free space setting most likely.
January 19, 201214 yr What is the allocation method set to on your share? When I started copying files (allocation = high water), it only copied files to 1st disk till 1 Tb was copied over. Then it started using 2nd disk. Both disks are 2 Tb. My 3rd disk is a 1 TB and has not been touched yet. Let me tell you - I was so freaking out 4 in the morning thinking I had totally screwed things up
January 19, 201214 yr Author Sorry, I meant to add that I am using the default High Water. Min. Free space is 0.
January 20, 201214 yr Provide your file structure and the share settings and then someone can actually help instead of just guessing what the problem could be. Peter
January 20, 201214 yr Author Pretty simple stuff. 5 2TB shared drives. 1 2TB parity drive. 1 2TB cache drive. All shares high water, all 0 Min. free space, Split level blank save as mentioned below, included disk are disks 1-5 except as mentioned below. I don't use the cache disk for any of them yet. My TV/Other TV/Sons of Anarchy...split level 2 My Movies/Family Movies/Bolt (2009)...split level 2 My Music/Stephen Lynch/Craig Machine/... Downloads/Complete/... XBMC..disk 1 only Most of the new stuff is added to Downloads initially and then moves to the TV folders. All of them are getting added to disk 3. Current disk stats: disk1 45.83 GB free disk2 64.26 GB free disk3 1.19 TB free disk4 2 TB free disk5 2 TB free I'm kind of curious if I shouldn't be creating the folders (e.g. My TV/Family TV) on disk 4 and 5. I did read in the wiki the example they gave was that it waits until 1/2 the drive is full but they didn't really say if that was the default or even how you would set that up. Any help would be appreciated.
January 20, 201214 yr Split level 2 means a whole TV series must remain on a single disk. Are you starting new series or just adding new episodes? Peter
January 20, 201214 yr LOL, I hope it makes sense now. Looking again, I can't really explain the Downloads share. A blank split level is supposed to remove any split level restrictions (same as using say 99) but you're indicating it's not using the new disks either. The 1/2 full thing for each disk is the allocation method but it's not 1/2 full, it's until < 1/2 of the largest free space is left. You can change this method to fill-up or most free. Generally, I don't recommend using fill-up unless you really understand the share settings and what will happen when a disk is full. Peter
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