Hi,

 

I have an array with 11 2tb data drives running unRaid 6.17

 

I updated because I wanted to increase the size of my array and 6 allowed a simpler way to preclear disks (I am a bit rusty).

 

I precleared a new 6tb WD Red and swapped it out for the parity drive. Parity completed and now my array is protected. I precleared another 6tb WD Red with the intention of adding it to the array. I formatted it as XFS as that seems the way to go and it seemed to add to the array ok.

 

However I cannot add this new disk to any existing shares, it is not selectable in the dropdown. I am guessing this may be due to the different format of the disk?

 

So I am now unsure on how to proceed. I saw this post explaining how to move all my data to XFS but if I am honest it looked a bit complex and I don't want to screw things up, as I said I am a bit rusty with unRaid.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=37490.msg346739#msg346739

 

Is there any way to have different formatted disks in a share and if not is it 'bad' to have 6tb disks in ReiserFS?

 

Any advice welcome

 

Thank you.

 

Adam

Yes. I have had mixed drives participating in the same shares.

Have you tried adding the new drive into the global shares selection?

No 

 

I'll take a look.

 

FYI what are the advantages of XFS?

 

Thank you.

 

Adam

ReiserFS is an older file system that isn't really maintained very well any more since its creator is in prison for murdering his wife.

 

Many people report greater stability of the OS using XFS with V6. I converted all my drives to XFS.

No 

 

I'll take a look.

 

FYI what are the advantages of XFS?

 

Thank you.

 

Adam

 

trurl gave the basic reason, another reason is that XFS works better with extended attributes which is relevant with a few plugins that check for "bitrot" and store hash information in extended attributes.

 

Keeping existing disks as ReiserFS is totally ok, but if you are adding new disks I would do XFS (or in the case of a cache pool BTRFS)

Thanks for the help people.

 

Kind of delayed getting back on this as unRaid now won't recognise my new precleared disks (WD 6Tb Red) as have being precleared. Am trying a preclear again, hopefully 3rd time is the charm

 

As a side issue I have a problem with a couple of folder structures/shares being duplicated:

 

I have //movies/TV and another version //movies/Tv with lower case 'v'. Not sure how I ended up with 2 but they both contain all my TV shows and any attempt to delete the 'Tv' folder will also delete the real 'TV' folder.

 

Not sure if my shares are corrupt but would appreciate any assistance in correcting this anomaly.

 

Thanks

Thanks for the help people.

 

Kind of delayed getting back on this as unRaid now won't recognise my new precleared disks (WD 6Tb Red) as have being precleared. Am trying a preclear again, hopefully 3rd time is the charm

 

As a side issue I have a problem with a couple of folder structures/shares being duplicated:

 

I have //movies/TV and another version //movies/Tv with lower case 'v'. Not sure how I ended up with 2 but they both contain all my TV shows and any attempt to delete the 'Tv' folder will also delete the real 'TV' folder.

 

Not sure if my shares are corrupt but would appreciate any assistance in correcting this anomaly.

 

Thanks

Linux is case-sensitive so if you specify "Tv" you get something different than if you specify "TV". You will have to go to the unRAID command line to clean this up since Windows doesn't know the difference. Google Midnight Commander if you don't already know how to use it. And figure out why you have these. Most likely you have configured some app with a different upper/lower case than others.

Thank you trurl, I will do that.

I think I may have caused this when setting Airvideo and used paths with lowercase, Its the only thing I can think of.

 

I'll try and figure it out.