I have been doing various updates on my server, such as upgrading parity to 4 TB and removing a dying drive, etc.  In digging around to reassure myself that all was well, I discovered a weird anomaly.

 

I found a directory for a ripped bluray on a disk that did not contain the BDMV directory, yet, when I look at this directory on the /mnt/user/Videos/Bluray share, the directory is there and contains all the correct sub-direvtories and files!!

 

Here is my directory structure.  The movie in question is "The Time Machine" which I got for my birthday in November and I promptly ripped it to my XMBC unraid server.

 

/mnt/user/Videos -- my top level share

/mnt/user/Videos/Movies

/mnt/user/Videos/Movies/Bluray  -- contains all my bluray movies.  I do this to force a single disk to contain all the stream files.

 

Here is the problem, here is a directory listing of /mnt/user/Videos/Movies/The\ Time\ Machine:

 

root@Tower:/# ls /mnt/user/Videos/Movies/Bluray/The\ Time\ Machine\ \(1960\)/
BDMV/  CERTIFICATE/  disc.inf

 

Here is a listing of /mnt/disk3/Videos/Movies/Bluray/The\ Time\ Machine\ \(1960\)/

 

root@Tower:/# ls /mnt/disk3/Videos/Movies/Bluray/The\ Time\ Machine\ \(1960\)/
BDMV/  disc.inf

 

Here is a listing of /mnt/disk3/Videos/Movies/Bluray/The\ Time\ Machine\ \(1960\)/.  Note that this is a different disk from above.

 

root@Tower:/# ls /mnt/disk8/Videos/Movies/Bluray/The\ Time\ Machine\ \(1960\)/
CERTIFICATE/

 

So, the /mnt/user/Videos/Movies/The\ Time\ Machine directory is the "OR" of /mnt/disk3 and /mnt/disk8 directories!  Now my share definition for Video is split level 3.  This should mean that Videos is level 1, Movies is level 2 and Bluray is level 3, right and that every directory tree (directory and all file and directories within this directory level) under Bluray show be forced onto a single disk, right?  Note that everything seems to work just fine since XBMC only know about DVD and Bluray levels.  It seems a single directory for The Time Machine, with all the correct directories and files below that level.  Note also, that this has nothing to do with my recent changes to the array.  This apparently happened in November when I ripped the bluray.  The files all have Nov time stamps.

 

So is this an error and, if so ,should I do anything about it?

 

 

It's not an error. That combining of directories on all disks into a single directory view is exactly what user share are supposed to do. All it is is a housekeeping issue if you chose to make it one. You could use the disk shares and combine the directories to a single disk if you wanted.

 

Your use of split level is correct. 3 means the Blueray directory can split to multiple drives but the directories underneath should remain on a single drive. So, I have no explanation of how that happened unless you had changed settings at some point or were moving files around on the disks at some point.