April 29, 201016 yr Well, I installed a 160GB hardrive the other day as a cache drive and everything looks like it is set up ok.. A little while ago I started moving some files into some of my user shares. I checked the contents of /mnt/cache and there is nothing in there? Instead it moved it directly onto on of the disks, just as if the cache drive wasnt there.. I checked the log and there is nothing relating to this in there Anybody have any clues?
April 29, 201016 yr Well, I installed a 160GB hardrive the other day as a cache drive and everything looks like it is set up ok.. A little while ago I started moving some files into some of my user shares. I checked the contents of /mnt/cache and there is nothing in there? Instead it moved it directly onto on of the disks, just as if the cache drive wasnt there.. I checked the log and there is nothing relating to this in there Anybody have any clues? Did you enable the cache drive on any of your user-shares? If not, that might be why it is not being used. (It is enabled individually per share. By default, nothing uses it even after being assigned on the "Devices" page) Joe L.
April 29, 201016 yr Hi Joe I too have set up a cache drive all seems ok but when i set up my share to use cache the share dir. does not show up on the cache drive do I need to manualy make these share dir on the cache drive? thanks Lou
April 29, 201016 yr Hi Joe I too have set up a cache drive all seems ok but when i set up my share to use cache the share dir. does not show up on the cache drive do I need to manualy make these share dir on the cache drive? thanks Lou No, you do not. What values did you use when you set up the cache drive for "min free space"? Is there sufficient free space on the cache drive? If not, it will not be used. Joe L.
April 29, 201016 yr Author Well, I installed a 160GB hardrive the other day as a cache drive and everything looks like it is set up ok.. A little while ago I started moving some files into some of my user shares. I checked the contents of /mnt/cache and there is nothing in there? Instead it moved it directly onto on of the disks, just as if the cache drive wasnt there.. I checked the log and there is nothing relating to this in there Anybody have any clues? Did you enable the cache drive on any of your user-shares? If not, that might be why it is not being used. (It is enabled individually per share. By default, nothing uses it even after being assigned on the "Devices" page) Joe L. Man do I feel stupid now... Yup, assigned the drive as a cache drive, but never enabled it for any of the shares
April 29, 201016 yr Ok So i figured that the 40gig was to small went out picked up a 320 gig WD installed it as cache drive formated ok set mdeia share to use Cache also set on export read/write Min free space set to 200000 but still won't pick up the share dir in the cache drive am I missing something? Lou
April 29, 201016 yr Author Ok So i figured that the 40gig was to small went out picked up a 320 gig WD installed it as cache drive formated ok set mdeia share to use Cache also set on export read/write Min free space set to 200000 but still won't pick up the share dir in the cache drive am I missing something? Lou You still access your media shares as normal.. Anything you copy to the shares gets actually copied to the cache drive first.. So copy something to one of your media shares and then check the cache drive.. it should show up in there now and will get copied to the final place at night..
April 29, 201016 yr Ok So i figured that the 40gig was to small went out picked up a 320 gig WD installed it as cache drive formated ok set mdeia share to use Cache also set on export read/write Min free space set to 200000 but still won't pick up the share dir in the cache drive am I missing something? Lou The min free space might be a tiny bit too small. I think I read somewhere it is in 1024 byte units. Therefore 1024 * 200000 = 200Meg. If the files you are attempting to write are larger than this I don't think the cache drive will be used.
April 29, 201016 yr Ok So i figured that the 40gig was to small went out picked up a 320 gig WD installed it as cache drive formated ok set mdeia share to use Cache also set on export read/write Min free space set to 200000 but still won't pick up the share dir in the cache drive am I missing something? Lou The min free space might be a tiny bit too small. I think I read somewhere it is in 1024 byte units. Therefore 1024 * 200000 = 200Meg. If the files you are attempting to write are larger than this I don't think the cache drive will be used. Is that how it works? I thought the 'min free space' setting was the amount of the drive that wouldn't be used. Therefore, if you have a 40 GB drive with a 2 GB 'min free space,' then you could copy over 38 GB before the cache drive would stop being used.
April 29, 201016 yr Ok So i figured that the 40gig was to small went out picked up a 320 gig WD installed it as cache drive formated ok set mdeia share to use Cache also set on export read/write Min free space set to 200000 but still won't pick up the share dir in the cache drive am I missing something? Lou The min free space might be a tiny bit too small. I think I read somewhere it is in 1024 byte units. Therefore 1024 * 200000 = 200Meg. If the files you are attempting to write are larger than this I don't think the cache drive will be used. Is that how it works? I thought the 'min free space' setting was the amount of the drive that wouldn't be used. Therefore, if you have a 40 GB drive with a 2 GB 'min free space,' then you could copy over 38 GB before the cache drive would stop being used. You can tell I don't use a cache drive. I'll bet I'm wrong. Time for me to get off my tail and try an experiment on my array. I know it is 1024 byte increments for the min-free space on the user-shares for allocation purposes as per this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3760.msg32767#msg32767 I had initially thought it was the same unit for the cache drive. Joe L.
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