I mainly use my server for movies and music. In the past when I would copy movies to the server the movies would fill the first disk in the share and then go to the next disk. Now before the disk is even half full the movies start to fill the next disk. I have disks 1 through 6 set for movies, and disk 8 for music. Disk 4 has 200 gigs free. when I copy a movie it goes to disk 5 (should go to 4), when I copy a CD it goes to disk 5, it should go to disk 8. What am I doing wrong?

 

I am using 4.3.3

 

Please help.

Gary Trudeau.

Am I missing something? Is the answer so obvious that nobody wants to respond? Am I not giving enough info about the problem? I wish I could pinpoint when this started happening. My server has been up and running for about 6 or 7 months without problems. I don't know if this started with one of the 4.3 betas. Please let me know if I need to provide more information.

 

Thanks,

Gary Trudeau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Am I missing something? Is the answer so obvious that nobody wants to respond? Am I not giving enough info about the problem? I wish I could pinpoint when this started happening. My server has been up and running for about 6 or 7 months without problems. I don't know if this started with one of the 4.3 betas. Please let me know if I need to provide more information.

 

Thanks,

Gary Trudeau

I cannot answer for anyone else, because I don't have my disks set up the way you do.

 

Fairly recently, "split level" of 0 was changed to indicate a split at any folder was OK, equivalent to split=999.  That is the only change I am aware of.

 

You will need to give a bit more detail about the share config:  Split level, allocation method, included drives, excluded drives are all part of the disk allocation... in addition to free space of course.  A screen print (or several if needed) of your "Shares" config page might be in order.

 

Joe L.

Thanks for the reply Joe.

 

I tried to post a screen capture but I can't figure out how to put it in the reply.

My directory structure is (\\TOWER\disk1\Movies\310 To Yuma\VIDEO_TS, or T:\310 To Yuma\VIDEO_TS).  I have 8 disks plus parity.  disks 1 through 6 are for movies, disk 7 is for home movies, and disk 8 is music.  I have split level set to 0 and allocation is High Water. The movies share excludes disks 7 and 8, the home movies share excludes disks 1 through 6 and 8, and the music share excludes disks 1 through 7. This setup use to work. I don't know what happend. Let me know if I need to post more info.

 

Thanks,

Gary Trudeau

 

Thanks for the reply Joe.

 

I tried to post a screen capture but I can't figure out how to put it in the reply.

 

Upload your screen capture to http://www.tinypic.com

It will provide an [ IMG ] ..... [ / IMG ] tag to paste in your message.  No registration is needed, and it is free to use tinypic.  It is part of photobucket.com

 

Joe L.

 

Thanks again Joe.  Let me know what else I should provide.

 

Thanks,

Gary T.

There must be something i don't understand here. From what you describe in your first post, it seems you are just using high-water, and it is what i see on the pictures.

 

For me this is what high-water do. From what i remember, it first chooses the disc with most free space, then fill it up to half that space, then chooses the next with most free space and fill it again to half, then ...

 

So for empty 2x 1To drives, it will fill first 500Go, second 500Go, then first 250 more Go, then second 250 more Go, then first 125 more Go, then second 125 more Go, then first 62,5 more Go, then second 62,5 more Go, then...

 

I don't know if there is an option to fill up a drive complete then go to the next. To be honest, this is what i do and i use the disk to do it, as i don't know how with shares. I first tried high-water but looks wierd to me, so i do it by hand. But i didn't look deep in the documentation to see what all the options where doing. Just checked the high-water that sounded great at first. But there sure must be a good reason for it to exists

Now I feel like an idiot. I can't believe I didn't notice this. If I remember correctly, when I first built my server it would fill up the first disk then move to the next. Did something change with the newer versions of unRAID? I still don't understand the problem with MY Music. It is set to use disk 8 and only disk 8. When disk 8 is half full it creates a MY Music file on disk 5 (the next empty disk). Disk 5 is not an included disk for My Music. Is there a way to change the high water mark? How is everyone else filling their servers?

The behavior of split level 0 changed and was documented in the release notes.

 

 

Bill

It is my understanding that Split Level 0 means split at the disk level. If you use Split Level = 1 then this means split only below the first directory of the share, which is the share name.

 

It sounds to me that using split level 0 over-rides the exlude disk setting.

 

Peter

 

PS. Set your split Level to at least 1, if you want sub-directories under the main share to split across disks then use 2 or more as the split level.