Share allocation method not functioning correctly

[Trunkz]

So I've got various shares all set to the High-Water allocation method. My HW setup:

 

HP Microserver N54L

1x Seagate 4TB as Parity Drive (XFS)

2x WD Greens 2TB as Disk 1 & Disk 2 (XFS)

1x Samsung 2TB as Disk 3 (XFS)

1x Sandisk 64GB SSD (btrfs) as cache

1x OCZ 60GB SSD (btfs) as future cache pool (currently unused & unassigned)

 

So currently, i'm using 1.01TB (with 991GB free) on Disk 1. Surely as disk 1 reaches 1000GB free (the halfway point) then any and further data should be written to the next disk (disk 2 in this case) but it hasnt done this. Both disk 2 & disk 3 are empty. Currently running 6.0-beta12

[trurl]

What about your split level settings?

[Trunkz]

For example, my TV share is set to automatically split only the top two directory levels as required. For reference:

 

TV\Show 1\Season 1,2,3,4etc..\episodes

TV\Show 2\Season 1,2,3,4etc..\episodes

 

Etc..

 

Infact; I've now set this share to Automatically split any directory as required; so this *should* work if splitting was causing the issue.

 

Edit -

 

Just invoked mover and its still writing to Disk 1 (from cache).

[JonathanM]

If the sub folder already exists, unraid will try to write to the existing folder instead of creating a duplicate one on another disk.

[lionelhutz]

Sounds to me that the split level isn't allowing a duplicate directory to be created on a new disk. Maybe you should give an actual example.

 

Check the global share settings on the settings tab and make sure you didn't exclude disks there.

[Trunkz]

Fixed it by setting split level to automatically split any directory as required