December 1, 20241 yr I am still trying to figure out the nuances of cache. I just switched my cache from a pool of 2 drives (1TB SSD and a 2TB Nvme) to a 4TB Nvme. I have 2 folders, Plex and Appdata, which reside on the cache but the share settings are to have the mover move them to the protected array. Before all the changes both the Plex and Appdata folders showed a green dot under shares. Now they have an orange triangle with an exclamation point. Did I screw up my settings after the conversion to the new 4TB drive or is this because I no longer have a cache pool? Thanks in advance Dale
December 1, 20241 yr Community Expert 31 minutes ago, dchamb said: or is this because I no longer have a cache pool? You now have only a single drive in the pool, so by definition it cannot be resilient which is why any share that has files on the pool will indicate the share is not fully protected.
December 1, 20241 yr Author 12 minutes ago, itimpi said: You now have only a single drive in the pool, so by definition it cannot be resilient which is why any share that has files on the pool will indicate the share is not fully protected. Thanks that was what I expected. However how did this work with the 1TB and 2TB drive since they aren't the same size? I had half the combined storage (1.5TB), so only 1TB would be protected right?
December 2, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution 2 hours ago, dchamb said: Thanks that was what I expected. However how did this work with the 1TB and 2TB drive since they aren't the same size? I had half the combined storage (1.5TB), so only 1TB would be protected right? No. Btrfs allows for drives of unequal sizes to be used in a redundant manner.. However in the case you mentioned with only 2 drives there would only have been 1TB of usable space despite the GUI suggesting otherwise.
December 2, 20241 yr Author 44 minutes ago, itimpi said: No. Btrfs allows for drives of unequal sizes to be used in a redundant manner.. However in the case you mentioned with only 2 drives there would only have been 1TB of usable space despite the GUI suggesting otherwise. Thank you. I formatted the new cache drive as xfs so I suppose to get 4TB of redundant cache i would need another 4TB nvme.
December 2, 20241 yr Community Expert 6 hours ago, dchamb said: so I suppose to get 4TB of redundant cache i would need another 4TB nvme. Yes, and also change the file system to b e btrfs or zfs as Unraid does not support xfs in multi-drive pools
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