I noticed I had 545 errors on disk8 WD10EADS.  I ran a short SMART test and it appears to be OK.  On the syslog I'm seeing a lot of, "Server shfs: duplicate object:..."

 

Should I be worried?  I'm new to the troubleshooting side of unRAID, so any help is appreciated.

 

 

I noticed I had 545 errors on disk8 WD10EADS.  I ran a short SMART test and it appears to be OK.  On the syslog I'm seeing a lot of, "Server shfs: duplicate object:..."

 

Should I be worried?  I'm new to the troubleshooting side of unRAID, so any help is appreciated.

 

It has nothing to do with the disk, it has to do with your files and their names.

 

You have apparently put the exact same name files in parallel directories on different data disks.

 

In other words, if you have

/mnt/disk1/Movies/joe.avi

and

/mnt/disk2/Movies/joe.avi

 

Then only one of them can be seen through the user-shares as

/mnt/user/Movies/joe.avi

 

The second, with the identical directory hierarchy and identical file name can't be viewed through the shared file system (shfs). It can only be seen on the "disk" shares.

The file on the lowest numbered disk is the one that is made visible through user-shares.  The "duplicate object" listed in the syslog is the one that can't be seen through user-shares.

 

Move your files to a directory that is uniquely named and the "duplicate object" messages will go away.

 

Joe L.

Thanks Joe!  That is definitely the problem.  I just don't understand how it happened.  The files that are duplicates are so random, and a lot of the files I haven't touched since I first put them on the server.  Very strange how they're suddenly appearing on disk8 which is a fairly new disk.

 

I set my split level to 10 on all shares about 6 months ago when I was having trouble getting files to transfer from cache.  Could that be doing this somehow?

 

This is very confusing, and it's going to take a long time to delete all the duplicate files.

i belive unmenu has a dupe finder.

 

or you can use any windows based dupe finder on your disk shares. i reccomend a program called beyond compare if you go down this route, side by side listing and youjust set it to display dupes only.

Thanks for the dupe finder info!  I'll give it a whirl.  I was going line by line through the syslog last night trying to delete dupes, but that got to be too tedious and I gave up.

 

Anybody have any clue how this could have happened if I didn't do it?  I've got an 8yr old, but I doubt he would have done this.  Is unRAID known to do this sometimes?  Or perhaps some kind of Windows program?  A lot of the files are entire music albums, but some are just single songs from an album.  But none of the music has been listened to anytime recently.  There are also a few movies, but they are recent additions.