Hey guys,

 

I just put in a 250GB drive tonight to use for my cache drive.  I have (3) 2TB drives in my array, with one being my parity.  I have not had any problem with accessing the user or disk shares on these with any of my Windows, Mac, or Linux computers.  For some reason, it don't even have read permission to access my cache drive.  I had some files on it I would like to transfer over to one of my other user shares before I format it.  I can see all the folders showing up as shares, but I cannot access them as I am denied permission on my Mac and Windows computers.  Am I missing something?  I have the cache disk share set to public and set to export.  Is the cache share inaccessible for file transfers or anything?

I think I may have figured this out.. Being that I did not format this drive, I am guessing there is a conflict with it being NTFS filesystem.  Can anyone confirm?

I think I may have figured this out.. Being that I did not format this drive, I am guessing there is a conflict with it being NTFS filesystem.  Can anyone confirm?

Strange that it would not make you format it to one of the supported filesystems reiserfs, XFS, or btrfs. Stop the array and then click on the drive in Main and select File system type. When you start the array it will format it.

I ran across that with another user.  With unassigned devices installed (which includes ntfs) unraid will let you use a previously ntfs formatted drive as cache)

Squid, it did allow me to assign it as a cache drive, but I was unable to access any of the shares on it.  No matter what protocol I use, I got access denied while trying to open the Cache disk share, or any of the folders unRAID made into user shares.  I did format the drive to xfs and then was able to access the cache disk share.  I guess we can consider this solved, although it would be nice to have some official word on what the deal is.

 

I am guessing there is a conflict with the permissions being that the file system was NTFS, maybe something like FAT32 would work just fine being that it is does not have the security NTFS does.

 

 

Thanks for the help guys.  I downloaded unRAID about 3 weeks ago after first hearing about it from a friend, and just finally bought my key last night.  I was on the fence for awhile, but I think this may be the best OS i have come across.