Just wondering what the newest beta is and where it is for download.

 

Is there also a list of newest features or fixes?

 

Any idea when new update will be available?

 

Thanks

 

http://www.lime-technology.com/dnlds/

 

There is a readme in the zip file.

Hey Tom,

 

I added a drive to my 2nd Unraid system running beta 2 and there was no clearing step, just a quick format and *poof* available space.  That supposed to be the case? 

 

FYI:  Parity was invalid at the point because I was funking around with the array.  Not sure if that is related or not.  Syslog available upon request.

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FYI:  Parity was invalid at the point because I was funking around with the array.  Not sure if that is related or not.  Syslog available upon request.

 

Correct behavior.  A drive is "cleared" only when it's added as a New drive to an Existing array where Parity is currently VALID (that is, has been generated).

 

Here's why we want to clear the disk in this case... This is the case where your existing array is "protected" (you would be able to reconstruct a failed drive).  Well suppose you want to add a new disk to this array.  One way to do it is simply add the disk to the configuration and then start a new parity-sync.  But suppose one of the other disks fails during this process (or worse, you suffer a power outage and upon restart one of the disks fails).  In this case we wouldn't be able to reconstruct the failed disk because parity is inconsistent.

 

To solve this we can first write all-zeroes to every byte location on the new disk; then we can "atomically" add the new disk to the configuration in one step and parity is still valid (because if all the bytes on the new disk are zeros, parity doesn't change).

 

So that's the reason we clear first - just to guard against case of disk failure.  If you don't want to wait for the clear step, or you don't want the new disk to be cleared, then you can "Restore" array config (that is make it look like an all new array) and then Start - this will have the effect of starting a new parity-sync (with risk of losing data if disk fails during the parity-sync).

Is Slimserver installed in the new beta?

Is Slimserver installed in the new beta?

 

 

http://www.lime-technology.com/dnlds/

 

There is a readme in the zip file.

Is Slimserver installed in the new beta?

 

The only changes are driver upgrades/additions