April 10, 201412 yr Hi, can someone please explain how i should set it up properly? disk1 Browse /mnt/disk1 ST4000VN000-1H4168_ (sdd) 37°C 4 TB 0 2439 39268 0 disk2 Browse /mnt/disk2 ST4000VN000-1H4168_(sdc) 36°C 4 TB 1.34 TB 181 10 0 disk3 Browse /mnt/disk3 TOSHIBA_DT01ACA300_ (sde) 38°C 3 TB 2.98 TB 20 10 0 disk4 Browse /mnt/disk4 TOSHIBA_DT01ACA300_ (sdf) 39°C 3 TB 3 TB 6 10 0 cache Browse /mnt/cacheWDC_WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0_(sdb) 1 TB 581.08 GB 145204 7 0 currently these are my drives, no parity yet. my problem now is, my mover can't flush out the files to the disk as it says is full. well, yes, disk 1 is full and should move on to next disk but the mover keep flushing to disk 1. i have 3 shares now. Music (split 0) Videos (split 1) apps (split blank, cache only) then i go to windows to create sub-folders in videos. Videos -> Blu-ray (Disk 1,2) DVD (Disk 3) Assorted HD (Disk 3) why it ain't shifting to disk 2 since it still have space? why blu-ray ain't at disk 3 too? why disk 4 has no relation to any, i thought split 1 is main share? sigh, unraid is so confusing to use, could somebody advice me what to put the right setting?
April 10, 201412 yr Split level has precedence. See here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#User_shares_2
April 10, 201412 yr Author i've read it already and read guide. i still don't understand :'( i've to admit this is really stupid, my mind simply just can't absorb. given what you saw above. what should it be? somebody please do the setting for me
April 10, 201412 yr Author level one is user share, so shouldn't i see videos created on all drives? as for level 2, how do i set it? if i create folders under file explorer, Video -> Blu-ray (is blu-ray level 2?)
April 11, 201412 yr Author changed, no use still. Apr 11 09:17:51 Server shfs/user0: shfs_write: write: (28) No space left on device Apr 11 09:17:51 Server logger: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32) still sending to disk 1.
April 11, 201412 yr Attach screen shots of unRAID Main, the Shares->Videos, and Settings->Share Settings.
April 12, 201412 yr Author i manually shifted enough space for the mover to flush to disk 1. else i can't get it write on the disk.. the problem will be coming back soon since it's left with 80gB i still wonder why unraid is doing this..
April 12, 201412 yr Read this section of the unofficial user's manual. It has an excellent explanation of how to set the split level. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Split_level If you are still confused, draw out your layout as shown in this section and see if the layout makes sense with you are trying to do by using split levels. For many people, they have simply set the split level to 999 but that does allow for the potential of having the video files of a single DVD scattered over two different hard drives. This will probably result in a stuttering of the video and audio if the second disk is spun down.
April 12, 201412 yr What is the full path of the file been written to /Videos/DVD/? I.e., what exactly comes after /Videos/DVD/ (i.e., Videos/DVD/xxx)?
April 13, 201412 yr Author What is the full path of the file been written to /Videos/DVD/? I.e., what exactly comes after /Videos/DVD/ (i.e., Videos/DVD/xxx)? no more folder, after dvd folder would be seeing my files like iso videos - > dvd - > iso videos - > blu-ray - > iso videos - > assorted hd - > video file.mkv but why even after it fills up disk 1 and the mover still try to move it to disk 1? shouldn't it fills up disk 2, isn't it? and i have disk 4, unraid can expand it, but hasn't yet. if i can't solve this basic problem, don't think i can solve it when more disks coming in. :'(
April 13, 201412 yr Under the settings tab, click on 'ShareSettings' and verify that you have 'Enable User Shares' and have included all disks and excluded none of them.
April 13, 201412 yr Try turning 'off' the caching disk and copy a large BluRay iso over to the Video Share to see what happens.
April 13, 201412 yr Another thought; Are you are copying files to 'disk1/Videos/DVD? That will force the write to disk1. To copy the multi-disk shares, you must copy to the share. That is, 'videos/DVD'. I don't what you are using as your source for the copy or how you are even doing it. For the moment, I am going to assume that you are using Windows and Window Explorer. In Windows Explorer, when you click on network, you should (eventually) see your name of your server. Click on that name. You should see a list of directories (or Folders). Somewhere on that list you should see the names of your shares; example, "Videos". That is the share that you want to copy to! Don't copy to any share named "diskX" (where X is an number) UNLESS you want to force a write to only that disk. Hope this helps...
April 13, 201412 yr Is the min-free-space larger than the files that your writing? 2GB is smaller that any video files that I've created. blu-ray iso can be up to 40GB. The min-free-space needs to be larger than 40GB. Set it to 50GB and then you can manually top off the disks as needed.
April 14, 201412 yr Do what Frank 1940 says, Write to a particular drive and not to a share. This gives the control to put things exactly where you want and doesn't split the file across a drive (even though I can't believe that would even happen).
April 14, 201412 yr Author Do what Frank 1940 says, Write to a particular drive and not to a share. This gives the control to put things exactly where you want and doesn't split the file across a drive (even though I can't believe that would even happen). Hi Rick, that gives me the control i know, but i set the export to no and the drives won't appear in the player/streamer too messy. Just share folders to be seen only. edit: oh ya, there is a option hidden option. maybe i could play with that.
April 14, 201412 yr Author most of the time my disks will be sleeping, so if i send files over, it sends to cache drive and at the specified time flush it over to the disks it can write. i understand what frank concern is but i will try to leave it to the system to control but it sort of turns out not to what i expected it to be. i do not want the files be split to two drives which cause stuttering which is not the case due to current split level. maybe i try set the minimum space to 50GB. See how it goes.
April 14, 201412 yr Author Under the settings tab, click on 'ShareSettings' and verify that you have 'Enable User Shares' and have included all disks and excluded none of them. i left them blank. necessary to do such step and specify what disk?
April 14, 201412 yr Author oh and yes, i use windows and windows explorer to transfer files. under network i go to my server and select videos, blu-ray and paste it over there. from the unraid side, the cache wakes up and write the files and flush at the specified time. so doing this step isn't it telling the cache to send it to blu-ray folder isn't it? just like without cache disk, i will be directly writing there. i could map it as network drive and specified blu-ray folder and it sees as combined capacity of the drives. so it shouldn't be writing on disk 1 if it knows disk 1 is full, isn't it. previously i set minimum free space 20GB. now i have changed it to 50GB. lets see will this work or not.
April 14, 201412 yr See here for min-free-space info: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31966.msg291715#msg291715
April 14, 201412 yr As I see it, the problem that the OP has is that his Videos share does not seem to be following the rules for storing files. With the 'High Water' setting that he has specified in his settings, the next write to the share should be going to disk3 since disk1 and disk2 both have less than 2TB of free space on them (as I read it from Post# 7 in this thread). Normally, I would suspect that the problem is that the split level is set wrong but the OP says that it is set to 2 which should work for his described setup of "Videos" Folder -> "DVD" folder -> ISO Files The min-free-space parameter might not be set correctly and should be corrected but, as I understand it, this normally causes a 'Disk Full' write error. So what can be causing the problem? Possibilities: 1--- Only disks 1 and 2 are included in the share 'Videos'. 2--- User Shares are not enabled in the 'Settings'/'Share Setting' menu. 3--- The writes are not be made to the 'Videos' share Can anyone think of any other possibilities?
April 15, 201412 yr Author hi frank, that's right. is not following the rule as you mentioned it is set to high water. I'd still think it should write to other disk instead of targeting disk 1 only. regarding number 2, what do you mean? aren't those shared folders already? regarding number 3, the writes are intended heading to 'videos' share but due to disk full and obstinating to write to other disks.
April 15, 201412 yr As I see it, the problem that the OP has is that his Videos share does not seem to be following the rules for storing files. With the 'High Water' setting that he has specified in his settings, the next write to the share should be going to disk3 since disk1 and disk2 both have less than 2TB of free space on them (as I read it from Post# 7 in this thread). Normally, I would suspect that the problem is that the split level is set wrong but the OP says that it is set to 2 which should work for his described setup of "Videos" Folder -> "DVD" folder -> ISO Files The min-free-space parameter might not be set correctly and should be corrected but, as I understand it, this normally causes a 'Disk Full' write error. So what can be causing the problem? Possibilities: 1--- Only disks 1 and 2 are included in the share 'Videos'. 2--- User Shares are not enabled in the 'Settings'/'Share Setting' menu. 3--- The writes are not be made to the 'Videos' share Can anyone think of any other possibilities? Reply 6 in this thread indicates a Disk Full error.
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