Idea for keeping drives spun down..

[Helmonder]

I have Sickbeard and couchpotato running of the cachedrive. All downloads and processing is done on the cachedrive and only completed files are saved to the appropriate share (Series or Movies).

 

Since this runs of the server a save to /mnt/user/Series means the file gets written to the actual array disk and not to the cachedrive..

 

What would happen if I would save post processed sickbeard files to /mnt/cache/Series ?

 

I think that actually would work.. Only thing is that I would need the /mnt/user/Series folder to be persistent... At the moment the mover completely removes it... Could I set specific rights on the dir making it impossible for the Mover to remove the dir but still move the files ?

[trurl]

What if you create a hidden file or folder in /mnt/cache/Series , like /mnt/cache/Series/.hidden

 

Would the mover skip it and then not remove /mnt/cache/Series because it is not empty?

 

Don't know if that would work or not. Just an idea.

[Helmonder]

Worth a shot !

 

I created a .hidden and also give it 500 permissions... We'll see what has happened tomorrow :-)

[Influencer]

Anything written to /mnt/user/XXXXX will be written initially to the cache drive if the cache drive is enabled for that share, files will only be written directly to disk if you specify the disk directly like /mnt/disk1/XXXXX

[Helmonder]

Hi Influencer, I know.. But that is not the point I am making, but perhaps I am mistaken

 

When stuff is written ON the server and not thru a share (so by an on-server process like sickbeard, couchpotato), as far as I know then the cache drive is not used in transfers.. Is that not correct ?

 

What I suggest would circumvent that by writing directly to the physical folder on the cache drive that is written to the array nightly..

[itimpi]

When stuff is written ON the server and not thru a share (so by an on-server process like sickbeard, couchpotato), as far as I know then the cache drive is not used in transfers.. Is that not correct ?

No. 

 

If you use /mnt/user then the cache drive is used (if present) even for local transfers.    If you WANT to by-pass the cache drive you can use /mnt/user0 in local transfers.

[dgaschk]

When stuff is written ON the server and not thru a share (so by an on-server process like sickbeard, couchpotato), as far as I know then the cache drive is not used in transfers.. Is that not correct ?

It is not correct. Cache drive is used.

[Helmonder]

Thanks ! that helps !