gaikokujinkyofusho Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Hi, I have just gotten my server put together and started testing out unraid last night. I noticed that once the parity drive finished and I formatted (xfs) the installed drives they show up on the network as separate drives. Is there a way to use them like one large drive? (that is if I have four 4tb drives I can have ~11tb pool-looking-drive of usable space [minus ~3tb needed for parity]) note: I was searching for pools and wasn't coming up with much initially but then came across cache pools so it seems I should have formatted with btrfs instead of xfs and I would have gotten some different options? will keep reading... (constructive) comments still welcome Confused again: am back to thinking that unraid supports "arrays" (what is the difference between an array an a pool anyway?) when I saw the diagram on the "new unraid 6" page and it seems like for my purposes they cache pools and storage arrays give pretty much what i need, a large "virtual drive" with disk redundancy? Sorry, I am horribly confused. Link to comment
Squid Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 You just need to set up user shares to do this. You can also disable the exporting of the disk shares if you dont want to see them by clicking on the disk and setting export options to disabled Link to comment
gaikokujinkyofusho Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 You just need to set up user shares to do this. You can also disable the exporting of the disk shares if you dont want to see them by clicking on the disk and setting export options to disabled Thanks for this!!! "user shares" got me on the right track (found the page in the manual). Question though, I am still kicking the tires with the trial version, is the user shares option not available in the trial version or should something else be in place for user shares to not be grayed out? (its currently set to "no" and grayed out/not clickable for some reason) Link to comment
Squid Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I think it works (can't 100% remember). You may have to enable user shares under settings / global share settings Link to comment
gaikokujinkyofusho Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 I think it works (can't 100% remember). You may have to enable user shares under settings / global share settings Perhaps not, its the enable user shares option that i was referring to. Its ok though, so long as i know it will be there once I get around to buying the full version. thanks. Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I think it works (can't 100% remember). You may have to enable user shares under settings / global share settings Perhaps not, its the enable user shares option that i was referring to. Its ok though, so long as i know it will be there once I get around to buying the full version. thanks. It should definitely be available in the Trial version. I think you may have to stop the array, though, to be allowed to change the option for enabling User shares. Link to comment
Squid Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I think the only difference is that you cannot use "private" shares. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_the_unRAID_licenses.3F Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I think the only difference is that you cannot use "private" shares. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_the_unRAID_licenses.3F I think that restriction has been removed from v6 with the introduction of the trial and Basic versions. I think the only restriction now is the amount of space on a disk that can be use in the Trial version (and even that is only going to be enforced from the next beta release). Link to comment
Squid Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The disk size limitations on trial come into effect with RC 1 not if the next release is beta Link to comment
gaikokujinkyofusho Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Sorry, you guys are right, after some fiddling around I was able to enable it (not sure what I did wrong before). Thanks for setting me straight! Link to comment
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