I'm running 5.0-rc5 of unraid pro and I've installed a 2tb drive as a warm spare/cache drive.  However I don't think its being used.  I've added on the main tab and I've changed each of my shares to use it.  But, when I copy files to a share I don't see the used space on the cache drive change on the main tab (stays at 94.7mb).  I also have SMB turned on for the cache drive and I don't see any files being written to the it. 

 

Is there something else I have to do to get the cache working?  I have a large amount of data to move to my server and I really wanted to cache to speed up the transfer.

 

Thanks in advance,

Richarrd

There is a file browser on the unRAID webGUI main page. Does the cache show any files? A restart may help.

This is what is on the file browser:

0 objects: 0 directories, 0 files

 

I guess I'll try a restart.

 

I had a similar problem with one of my drives.  I set it the share to use a cache drive but it didn't stick.  I went back in and set, hit "apply" the "done" and it has worked since.  Double-check your settings on the share.

TA DA! 

The healing power of a reboot.

 

Not sure why I didn't try that sooner.

 

My "apparent" transfer rate has tripled and I'm happy.  This should save days off of my repopulation of my server.

 

Thanks all.