Since I have such a large USB stick (64 GB) can I configure the docker image to be setup/created on that? I'm almost at the point of finally creating a docker image. Right now I've deleted a lot of old content and things I don't need and also wanted to know if there was a docker or plugin to balance out all your drives? Right now I have some drives using < %20 and other ones at %80. If there is no automation for a re-balance I would assume the best way to do it manually would be to manually copy files/folders using the disk shares to balance them out?

 

-Thanks

 

I am NOT an export... but this sounds dangerous to me. You want to copy the docker image to the same flash drive that runs unRAID? I assume there will be a lot or read/writes that will reduce the life expectancy of the thumb drive.

 

Also, USB thumb drives tend to be slower than hard drives on sata. So you will pay a penalty there.

 

My Docker image (from the Settings page) is set to 20GB (use 7gb so far)... not huge, the size of a couple 1080p movies. This is cheap storage.

I am NOT an export... but this sounds dangerous to me. You want to copy the docker image to the same flash drive that runs unRAID? I assume there will be a lot or read/writes that will reduce the life expectancy of the thumb drive.

 

Also, USB thumb drives tend to be slower than hard drives on sata. So you will pay a penalty there.

 

My Docker image (from the Settings page) is set to 20GB (use 7gb so far)... not huge, the size of a couple 1080p movies. This is cheap storage.

 

I agree.

I second (or is it third) the concern about increasing the wear on the flash drive.

 

However, under the right circumstances, the USB flash drive could be faster than a hard drive. E.G. On USB 3.0 with a fast drive like the SanDisk Ultra Fit.

 

An additional consideration is the flash drive will be formatted using FAT32. So maximum file size of 4GB. Probably too small for most docker images. (There is no "easy" way to format the flash drive with a file system other than FAT.)