OK.  I know that I read it somewhere before but I can't find it again.

 

Would someone please tell me where it is explained or explain to me the expected behavior of unRAID if I have duplicate files or directories on multiple drives that are configured for a common share?

OK.  I know that I read it somewhere before but I can't find it again.

 

Would someone please tell me where it is explained or explain to me the expected behavior of unRAID if I have duplicate files or directories on multiple drives that are configured for a common share?

Duplicate directories, no problem.  The combined contents are made visible in a single similarly named directory in the user-shares.

 

I have 12 physical disks, most have a "Movies" directory.  In each are various ISO images of Movies I own.  The combined collection is visible in a user share named "Movies"

 

Now, if two physical disks have the same named file, in the same directory, only one will appear in the user-shares.  The other will not be accessible except through the disk shares, if you even know it is there. 

 

There is a clue however, as an entry is written to the syslog when one of these "duplicates" is encountered.  It only shows one of the files and does not alert you of the location of the file with the same name already linked to the user-share.

 

You can see the location of all the files involved with this simple "sed" (stream editor) script described in this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2459.msg19267#msg19267

You will probably want to cut-and-paste it in your telnet session, as typing it in accurately by hand with all the backslashes is a bit tricky.

 

Or, you can install the unmenu improved web-interface.  http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#UnMENU

It has a plug-in to show the duplicate files (using exactly the same logic as in the above thread, but a few more backslashes, since the command is being invoked from within "awk")

 

The plug-in screen can be seen here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnMENU_screen_shots#Dupe_Files

 

Joe L.

Joe - Excellent reply.  Thank you. 

 

Of course I'm using unMenu!!  I plan to use unRaid + unMenu to help me identify 100's of duplicate MP3 files that came from multiple sources.  I'll purposfully make a share spanning multiple drives.  Then, place files from each source on diferrent drives and then delete dupes until unMenu tells me there are no more dupes in the share.