March 18, 20188 yr While we wait for LT to add this feature I've been playing with multiple btrfs pools with the help of UD plugin for some time with, while there are some limitations it's been working great, I wrote a FAQ entry for anyone who wants to try it, but note it's work in progress, it should be safe but use at own risk: https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/?do=findComment&comment=462135
March 18, 20188 yr Author 1 hour ago, johnnie.black said: While we wait for LT to add this feature I've been playing with multiple btrfs pools with the help of UD plugin for some time with, while there are some limitations it's been working great, I wrote a FAQ entry for anyone who wants to try it, but note it's work in progress, it should be safe but use at own risk: https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/?do=findComment&comment=462135 I will definitely check it out! thanks! T
May 31, 20188 yr I would Love this as well! The option to have multiple (as in more than one) cache pools and select what cache pool is used for a share would be very beneficial!!
June 9, 20188 yr Another +1. It would be quite nice to have a cache pool just for VMs and docker containers.
July 26, 20187 yr Author A week ago I had to make a vm to create a software raid of unassigned devices to pool together a bunch of drives so I could back up a server up to itself..... super needlessly complicated.... or we could have more cache pools and things would be awesome to the max. TO THE MAX! Think about it, @limetech, we're taking about THE MAX here!
July 27, 20187 yr I'm super keen on this (still) purely to have a pool dedicated to VMs. Wouldn't need to involve the mover and assuming your using btrfs, snapshotting VMs could come into play. In this case it could also allow an option for VMs pool to start independently of the rest of the array, bonus for those utilizing a VM for networking purposes (thinking pfSense for starters).
August 18, 20187 yr +1 The NVMe use-case mentioned previously is very applicable. Mainly it is order of magnitude difference in performance that drives this feature request.
September 27, 20187 yr +1 feature request. didn't make it to 6.6.0 😢 Edited September 27, 20187 yr by nasforthemass
September 27, 20187 yr Author 7 hours ago, nasforthemass said: +1 feature request. didn't make it to 6.6.0 😢 Im a bit bummed we can’t even get a wink, nod, or swatted with a paper and told not pee on the rug in relation to this.
October 17, 20187 yr +1 to this! I would love to have a fast cache pool for my VM's and Docker, and then another cache pool for my user shares to cache to.
October 19, 20187 yr On 3/18/2018 at 4:05 PM, johnnie.black said: While we wait for LT to add this feature I've been playing with multiple btrfs pools with the help of UD plugin for some time with, while there are some limitations it's been working great, I wrote a FAQ entry for anyone who wants to try it, but note it's work in progress, it should be safe but use at own risk: https://lime-technology.com/forums/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/?do=findComment&comment=462135 THANK YOU ! Although it is clearly a 'MacGyver' trick to fix the issue, being able to set up cache pools through UD is already a pretty good option. In that comment you also said that LT was already planning to add such feature innately to unRaid however I haven't been able to find any source regarding that. May I ask if you have more informations regarding this subject ? After all, it stands to reason to ask such possibility especially with the possibility to create VMs and dockers and the like where most users would prefer to have each VMs / docker cleanly separated in order to avoid stepping on each other's performances and space.
October 19, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Yros said: In that comment you also said that LT was already planning to add such feature innately to unRaid however I haven't been able to find any source regarding that. May I ask if you have more informations regarding this subject ? Sorry can't point to a specific post but Tom mentioned several times that multiple cache pools are on the roadmap, thought can't tell if it's going to happen on the next release or v8, but it should be soon™
October 19, 20187 yr 12 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Sorry can't point to a specific post but Tom mentioned several times that multiple cache pools are on the roadmap, thought can't tell if it's going to happen on the next release or v8, but it should be soon™ That's pretty good news. I suppose you don't have any speculation on the 'soon' delay ? (I mean, everyone got a definition of 'soon'... Like how my mom use to say 'in 5 minutes' but 4 hours later she's still not there xd). Still, pretty nice to know it's on the roadmap \o/
October 19, 20187 yr 57 minutes ago, Yros said: I suppose you don't have any speculation on the 'soon' delay ? No, sorry, soon™ is a running joke in the community, it can mean a few days, or a few years.
October 19, 20187 yr On 7/11/2017 at 5:28 AM, DarkKnight said: I don't even understand why Unassigned devices isn't already integrated instead of a plugin given how integral it is to obtaining seriously increased functionality Amen!
October 22, 20187 yr This would be great, I guess I run a normal setup where dockers would be on a pool with SSD disks and I would then want another pool with HDD disks
November 17, 20187 yr Would love this feature, cant believe it's not done already. What hardware workarounds could I use for an SSD or NVMe mirror raid?
December 9, 20187 yr Just throwing my 'vote' in, would also love multiple cache pools. I would dedicate 1 pool to just VM's and then have another pool act as a write cache pool for the storage array.
February 24, 20197 yr Author I bump you bump we all bump for useful features and integrations we all seem to agree are something beneficial to the wider unRaid community
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