(first i want to apology for my poor english skills, hope everything will be understandable  )

 

Hi,

 

I've just started using unRAID 6, so far it look great but i have a small question about how the "split" work.

 

I have 3 disks (2x3To + 1x1.5To) in my array (well 4 with the parity one).

 

I've created a user share with those settings :

 

• Allocation method: High-water
  
• Split level: Automatically split any directory as required
  
• Included disk(s): All
  
• Excluded disk(s): None
  

 

Now, from a Windows 7 computer I've started a huge file transfer (2.5To) to that specific network share.

 

The directory consist of lots of directories/sub/files (with sometimes multiples sub-directories).

 

With the "split any" setting I thought that for any file that would be copied to that share, it would be written to whatever disk was below the "50% mark", but so far it only write to the first disk of the array, and now stats for the first disk are "used :1,68 TB - free :1,32 TB" so it is not above the high water mark anymore, but data are still written to that disk, others remains "spun down".

 

Do I need the stop my file transfer a restart it again so it will split ? Or did i misunderstood how it is supposed to work?

Maybe I have too many sub-directories ?

 

thanks!

 

EDIT: I'm running unRAID 6.0-beta14b.

Quick follow-up :

 

I tested to stop my transfer, stop/relaunch the array and restart my transfer, now files are written to another physical disk, as intended.

 

Still don't know what happened at first... if someone have an idea 

Try this;

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#High_Water

 

A screen capture of the main page might help.

Thanks for the link, should have search there first. 

 

it explain why the 1.5TB disk wasn't used, but not why it did not switch to the third disk automatically.

 

main page screenshot attached below

 

anyway, thanks for your input !

Maybe won't use the 3rd until it starts using the 2nd.