Sorry guys I have read just about all there is to read about share setting and allocation setting and still a little confused.

I'm in the process of moving all my files off the unraid server and  then re-load them back on the server but I want to set my

shares up the right way this time.

What I have right now is a 6 drive array I have made 3 directories so far on disk1 as follows

Movies-->DVD Movies-->movie name-->iso

          -->Highdef Movies-->movie name-->iso

          -->Tv-->series name-->season--> iso

Music-->

Photo-->

 

My main interest and goal at this time is to have the movies fill 1/2 drive at a time and move to the next and so on across

all my drives and any new drive that will be added. If I read right and understand I should have my share setting at high water

level 4 would this be correct? that way when I load into mapped shared drive the disk1 will fill to 50% then to disk 2 and so on?

Any input on this would be a great help it takes long time to move files around and just want to be sure thanks.

Lou

 

 

 

 

 

 

pretty sure 4 is correct, thats what i use to make sure i dont get the no disk space problem, i have the same directory depth as you.

4 seems to high..

 

I have 1 for:

 

\\tower\movies\moviename\movie.avi

 

and 2 for:

 

\\tower\series\seriesname\season\episodex.avi

 

I want each movie to be on a disk and each season to be on a disk  (Movies and Series is the actual share name)

 

Hi Msan, have a read that this link below:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5949.msg57105#msg57105

 

It should give you a good overview on the correct Split Level setup that you should be using. Hope it helps.

Hi Msan, have a read that this link below:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5949.msg57105#msg57105

 

It should give you a good overview on the correct Split Level setup that you should be using. Hope it helps.

 

Looks just like my setup to me.. I/we just went over this a few days ago in the same thread

We sure did .

Thanks guys I did have it set to high water and level 3  but ended up with disk1 at 73% disk2 at 26% and disk 3 at 52%

and wants to keep writing to disk 3 disk 4 at 0% and disk 5 at 0% think I will give high water level 4 a try.

Lou

You have a mixed up share. For the movies in that share you should use level 2. For the TV series you should use level 3.

 

Maybe you want to manually create the directories and use level 0 like described here;

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3760.0

 

Peter

 

Ah ok Thanks

Question if i have several dir under one share can i set diffrent split levels for each dir under the main share

Example:  Media--->dvd movies--->movie name--->iso file (set at split level 2)

                        --->tv--->series name--->seasons number--->iso file (set at split level 3 )

or does the tv dir have to be out of the media share dir.

Thanks Lou

Ah ok Thanks

Question if i have several dir under one share can i set diffrent split levels for each dir under the main share

Example:   Media--->dvd movies--->movie name--->iso file (set at split level 2)

                        --->tv--->series name--->seasons number--->iso file (set at split level 3 )

or does the tv dir have to be out of the media share dir.

Thanks Lou

only one split level can be set per top level (user-share) directory.  It is not set at the sub-directory level.

Got it thanks Joe

Lou

Lou;

 

You could use split level of 0 and manually create the top level directories on each disk (Your top level Media directory as well as the DVD Movies, Hi-Def Movies and TV sub directories. If a disk is being over filled by a TV series then just create a "TV-Series" sub-directory for that particular series on a more empty disk.

 

Otherwise, I would just use a split level of 2. Each complete TV series will be kept on a disk. This really isn't a bad thing unless your disks are close to being full and you try to add to a TV series that is on an almost full disk. If you dump a big series onto a disk as it reached say 45% you might fill it up more than 50% but really why does it matter?

 

A split level higher than 2 could fragment your movies if you put more than a single file into a movie directory and especially if you go back later and add these extra files. Files such as images or data files that front end programs use to show you pretty data about the movie. I think even just using Windows Media Center will produce an image file for each movie and these will end up all over the place compared to where the movie iso is stored.

 

Peter

 

Thanks I understand what you are saying but my problem is that I am streaming to a popcorn c-200 and it will only mount one share at a time if i have multiple shares it will not mount under the same front end software such as unique black glass. So what I did was add one more sub dir to my movies and highdef movies to equal the tv dir and set split level to 3 so now all sub dir have the same amount of sub dir under the one share. if this makes any sense.music and photo are no issue i can make them there own shares. Any feed on this method pro or cons on what i have done?

Thanks again Lou

i'll get sooner or later LOL

That sounds like it would work. You could change the share name to be "Media" then stick a Movies under it to hold the movies.

 

Peter

 

Exactly what I did see what happens thank you very much

Lou

lionelhutz, I nominate you for the position of official 'Split Level Explainer'.  You seem to have a knack for it.  Perhaps you would care to take over my abandoned project of the 'End-all-be-all Split Level Thread'?  I deleted the thread, but I still have all the text from it, if you care to use any of it.