Hi,

so, for a share that I have, which is comprised of 2 x 1TB drives, and excludes the other 2 drives in array, one of the drives is at 96%, the other is at 77%.  I had originally set it for High Water allocation method, that's been fine all along, but now I just tried to put a BD movie file onto the share and it went to write on the more full drive, which didn't have enough space for the movie.  I don't know why it wrote to that drive in the first place, but then i changed the allocation method to Most Free thinking that should prompt it to write to disk2 which is the most free, nope continues to try to write to disk1.  I just wanted to get the movie on there for now, so i removed disk1 from that share trying to force it to write to disk2, still writes to disk1.

 

I hit apply when i made changes, idk why it's not writing to the correct drive, it's as if everything i do has no effect.

Does anybody know why it's not writing to most free drive?

 

thanks,

rlr

Solution- i had been writing to the same subfolder and then moving the movies from there, i created a new subfolder and it then selected the most free drive.

rlr

You likely have the split level set too low. For example, you have the split level set to 1 and are trying to write to a directory in the share.

 

Using 1 means any directory you create in the share will stay one the drive where it was created.

Using 2 means and subdirectory under a directory in the share will stay one the drive where it was created.

etc, etc

 

Using 0 first meant don't split a share across drive, then it was changed to mean allow any directory to split but I think the newest version of unRAID changed it back to mean don't split the share again.

 

Peter