After receiving some advice from GaryCase I decided the smartest course of action for me to take when upgrading from 4.7 to 5.0.5 would be to start out with a fresh install of unraid. I just backed up the data from the server today so if I mess something up all is not lost however I would much rather avoid a catastrophe all together if possible.

 

My basic plan of attack so far is:

1. Backup current flash drive, note disk positions, make note of all pertinent plugin configuration values.

2. Wipe Flash drive, copy v5.0.5 and run make_bootable.

3. Edit the ident.cfg and network.cfg files to the appropriate values so I can access the server via the web management utility.

4. Eject the flash drive, plug it back into the server and boot.

5. Assign my drives. From what Gary said as long as my cache and parity drives are assigned correctly data drive order doesn't matter.

 

-Now when it comes to user shares will unraid recognize the shares I already have on my disks and populate the user share page accordingly? Or will I need to define them before assigning the disks back to the array?

-Is there anything else important I should know or consider when it comes to starting out with a fresh flash drive and a live array like this?

I'm hoping to make a tutorial on how to do this once it is all said and done so other users can benefit from what I've learned.

User shares will be determined because they are folders at the TOP level of each diskX.

However, access to them will be disrupted because your named userids will be lost.

 

The change in the security model is described in the v5 notes.

With v.5,while 'root' can see 'diskX' shares, 'root' canNOT see files in user shares, like 'Movies'.

You must define a regular user and give him access to the shares.

 

All easy to do in the GUI. *DON"T install the 'advanced gui' from LimeTech..as of 5.0.5 it doesn't work....but should be fixed for 5.0.6

DON"T use SimpleFeatures...its incompatible with v.5.

If you liked SimpleFeatures, consider DYNAMIX, or unMENU or the Control-Panel-Ikosa systems, all of which are updated for 5.