Hi everyone,

 

I'm new to unRAID and just started using it a few days ago. As I was configuring my install, I came accross some sections of the configuration tutorial that raised some questions. I'll start with the "simple" one of the 2:

 

Question 1: "How do I manage user permissions based on users and shares/folders?"

 

For instance, user Bob has RW access to 'Videos' and 'Music' but RO access to Pictures and no access to 'Documents'

While user Anna has RW access to almost everything but only RO access to 'Documents'.

 

Ideally I would want to even manage that by groups. Group 'Users' contains Jack and Marina and they can only RO on Videos. Group 'Admin' contains Asktoomuch and has RW access to everything.

 

Is there a simple way to manage that by folders or shares like there is on DSM on my Synology?

Ideally it could be managed from the Web UI

 

 

Now, onto the more complicated matter.

 

I have read the wiki on the subject of "Split levels" and I'm utterly confused about their use.

I understand that the whole point is to limit fragmentation so that a movie file and its associated subtitle file don't end-up on different disks, but to be honnest, I fail to see the benefit. What I see however is that if you don't have a very well thought-out folder structure, you can easilly end-up in situations where you can't add up any more files because the folder level you are at will not split on multiple drives and the drive it resides on is full, even if you have more than enough space left on other drives.

 

I decided to go for unRAID because it was in my opinion the best "hands-off" solution for presenting a bunch of mismatched disks as a single drive to the final user, with little management required from an admin point of view. To be fair, I don't care if my files are spread all over the place. I even see it as a benefit as I wouldn't be losing entire parts of my folder structure if a catastrophic failure happened and killed 2 drives at the same time and my backups. It's almost as if I'd be spreading the risk by not putting all my eggs in the same basket - or files on the same drive in this instance.

 

Hence:

 

Question 2: "Is there a setting I can toggle to ensure that a file can always be written to the array as long as there's space on one of the disks, no matter the file's level in the folder structure?" Obviously I do not care where the file ends up being written as long as they are written given that the array has space for them

 

 

Thank you!

unRAID doesn't have user groups, just users. You will have to set each users access individually.

 

The point of not splitting movie files, for example, is to avoid the spinup delay that might occur if part 1 of a movie is on one disk, and part 2 of a movie is on another disk. Since unRAID can spin down disks that are not in use you could have a delay of a few seconds before part 2 could be read.

 

If you don't care about split levels you can just choose the setting to automatically split any.

 

There is a help "toggle" in the upper right that will give help for a page.