August 16, 20169 yr Hi Folks, I've been copying files from my flash cache drive to user shares so far with no issues. Read some warning it is not advisable to copy from disk to share and vice versa. I've been copying/moving files from: /mnt/cache/ to: /mnt/user/Media Is this a safe thing to do? I assume "/mnt/user/Media" is still considered a disk copy and not a share. Where are the "shares" actually located?
August 16, 20169 yr Hi Folks, I've been copying files from my flash cache drive to user shares so far with no issues. Read some warning it is not advisable to copy from disk to share and vice versa. I've been copying/moving files from: /mnt/cache/ to: /mnt/user/Media Is this a safe thing to do? I assume "/mnt/user/Media" is still considered a disk copy and not a share. Where are the "shares" actually located? If you're copying from /mnt/cache/Media to /mnt/user/Media, you're going to wind up corrupting the files You could either copy from /mnt/cache/Media to /mnt/user0/Media or from /mnt/cache/Media to /mnt/diskX/Media and be perfectly safe. But, if you source folder (ie: Media) isn't the same as the destination then you'll also be ok.
August 16, 20169 yr Author Okay thank you, I'll stop doing that. So I assume "user" is where the shares live. Than what is "user0" referencing to? Is it just corrupt files when copying incorrectly or can you cause damage the entire array?
August 16, 20169 yr If you copy from /mnt/cache/Media to /mnt/user/Media if the Media share is set to use the cache then the files will get corrupted since its overwriting the source . using user0 instead of user forces the system to bypass the cache drive even if the share is set to use the cache. Ie user is all the files on the array including the cache drive. User0 is all the files on the array excluding the cache drive Sent from my LG-D852 using Tapatalk
August 16, 20169 yr Community Expert Okay thank you, I'll stop doing that. So I assume "user" is where the shares live. Than what is "user0" referencing to? Is it just corrupt files when copying incorrectly or can you cause damage the entire array? Typically, what will happen is a new, empty file will be created to copy into, and because of the user shares, that new, empty file will have the same path on the same drive you are trying to copy it from. The result is you get an empty file.
August 16, 20169 yr from: /mnt/cache/ to: /mnt/user/Media If user share "Media" is set up to use the cache drive, you do much better moving the files from "/mnt/cache" to "/mnt/cache/Media" and then letting the mover handle it.
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