Fairly trivial request this one but could be very handy.

 

Each drive unRAID ever sees has a long unique number. If we have a text file that could be edited via the gui relating to this number we can make notes specific to a drive.

 

So for instance i could have

 

"Purchased from blah in Jan 2007. Installed as parity Mar 2008. Sits in slot 2 of my case. etc"

I like this idea, It lets you document when your warranty is up.

not bad

 

 

Yeah the warranty is one i never thought of.

 

Another nice by product is that since the txt files will be tiny they will likely outlive the life of the drives and serve as a drive history. It also means if you remove then re-add the same drive later you will have historical notes on it.

 

I dont know about anyone else but I dont bin drives I just shelf them. I now have far to many drives kicking about so having notes on them should i re-add one would be nice.

 

Lastly i just swapped case and some of my drives werent redetected as expected. I now have 3 drives and luckily i made a note manually of what drive was which. Points like this become irrelevant since the notes will still be there without even having to remount it manually to see.

Not sure I understand the feature... how would this be better than say, select/copy/paste the Main page into a text file?

Not sure I understand the feature... how would this be better than say, select/copy/paste the Main page into a text file?

 

We're lazy and the information is accessible right from the front page instead of going to another file.

Perhaps if the html were template based, we could write our own stuff...

 

because it would be a separate file for each disk - probably with a filename same as the drive serial and probably on the USB (since these files are tiny)

 

for every drive installed, show this file (if exists) with ability to edit it (or create it, for new disks)

 

its a simple idea, but not bad - could be useful to some

 

in fact it can be extended, you can append your own info, like whenever the drive is assigned in a position, or whever it showed up as bad, or in what /dev position the system finds it... this will create a historical file for each drive ever used

 

can be useful even for debugging

 

 

OK, also, not only notes. But I would love to see a few buttons per drive (maybe not on the main page but on the devices page).

 

[s.M.A.R.T] which would grab the smart logs and display them.

[s.M.A.R.T test]  Submit a short or long smart test to the drive to run in the background.

[iDENTIFY] which maybe would do an hdparm -t on the drive to allow you to test speed and identify which drive this points to. Or at least something to light the drive in question. a SMART test is all internal so the drive would not show activity.

 

 

I think this would be a very useful feature.

After some thought, I believe if emhttp had CGI interface, we could develop a mechanism to do this without complicating emhttp and weighing it down.

After some thought, I believe if emhttp had CGI interface

 

is that a hint? 

 

After some thought, I believe if emhttp had CGI interface

 

is that a hint? 

 

I did make a direct request/suggestion for a CGI feature. 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1942.0

 

In the meantime I'm exploring webfs lighthttp and apache for a way to do this and/pr write my own management interface with CGI's.

 

 

I love all these ideas. Would it be sensible to run 2 instances of emHTTP just to keep it away from the main interface?

I've contemplated running emhttp on a different port and binding it to localhost.

Then using an apache proxy definition to point back to emhttp.

I know you can run it on a different port, I'm not sure you can bind it to one specific IP.

 

I do this to my own network.

 

My view from the outside world is a host called gatekeeper.

There are a bunch of proxies and through various links, access the myriad of host services I have.