Hey everyone-

 

I've been researching and reading and not sure what results my current setup will provide.  I have a share created called media with no split level set, and the allocation method at high water.

 

My directory structure under media is like this:

 

MP3

-->Band

--->Album

 

Movies

(no folders)

 

TVShows

-->Series

--->Season

 

Files appear to be saved on different drives (which is fine).  My only concern is wanting to be sure to use all available space on my 2 data drives.  Am I setup to take advantage of all my disk space?

 

Thanks in advance

 

althor

*Bump*

From the FAQ: "The idea behind "High-Water" is to fill disk1 half way, then fill disk2 half way, then disk3 half way, etc.  When you've filled the last data disk half way, then it moves back to disk1, filling it 3/4 of the way, then disk2 3/4 of the way, etc."

 

It's been exactly like that for me. I'm a high water user.

Thanks.  I read that FAQ and a few other posts, but wanted to be sure that I didn't screw something up by not actually setting a split level.  Thank you.

From the FAQ: "The idea behind "High-Water" is to fill disk1 half way, then fill disk2 half way, then disk3 half way, etc.  When you've filled the last data disk half way, then it moves back to disk1, filling it 3/4 of the way, then disk2 3/4 of the way, etc."

 

It's been exactly like that for me. I'm a high water user.

 

Jeff, are all your disks the same size?

 

Read this description of high-water allocation as pointed out to me in another thread by dgasck

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20171.msg179914#msg179914

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Allocation_method

 

"The high water allocation method attempts to step fill each disk so at the end of each step there is an equal free space left on each disk."

 

So i understand, it will not progressively fill each disk half way unless they are all the same size