Hi all,

 

I've just successfully condigured UnRAID and all seems to be going well. I currently have two 2TB drives, one for parity which has not yet been assigned yet since I am about to move data across, I will then enable it once some migration is done.

 

As for the shares, I'd like to see if anyone see's any flaws and/or have any recommendations to improve/tweak the set up. Essentially, to ensure not many disks are spinning/in-use, I'd simply like to configure all my shares using the "Included and Excluded disk(s)" option. When complete, there will be 2x 2TB drives (one for parity), 2x 1TB drive, and 2x 500GB drives and plan on the following configuration:

Disk 0 - 2TB - parity

Disk 1 - 2TB - MV (movies)

Disk 2 - 1TB - MM1 (multimedia videos, not movies, ie. ANIME)

Disk 3 - 1TB - MM2 (multimedia videos, not movies, ie. SPORTS, TV, etc)

Disk 4 - 500GB - MP3

Disk 5 - 500GB - BCKUP (Personal files, photos, backups such as iTunes, OS,)

 

Note:

I'll have a primary location for Disk 4 and Disk 5 contents on my primary computer.

 

I haven't created any users yet and just access the server as root (password already modified). As well as left everything else as far as permissions are concerned. I've changed some network and server settings but other than that nothing else.

 

Does anyone see a flaw in this and/or have some recommendations? I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you!

I organise my files in a very similar way to your proposal, and it works very well for me as I want contol over where files are saved.

 

Using this approach, you dont need to use user shares.  Providing access through samba shares defined through smb-extra.conf file as discussed in http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4110.0 will provide what you need.

 

User shares are only useful when a "root" directory spans multiple disks, e.g. if you didnt create /MV1 on disk2 and /MV2 on disk3, i.e. having /MV spans disk1, disk2, and disk3 and using subdirectories of MV to organise your files.

You can still use User Shares as specify that your MV share uses only Disk1, for example.  However, it isn't necessary.  You can also just do it all manually through Disk Shares as mcs suggests.

Thx guys, really appreciate the feedback! Time to migrate files over and it'll be a slow process because I'm renting a house so there's no cabling, just via Wifi.

Just raising another question (updated title for it). I just remembered that the current Cruzer Micro that I'm temporarily using (and configured) has gone through a bit and actually don't trust it with UnRAID. So today I've purchased another 4GB which is a Lexar Firefly. Since I haven't yet purchased a license (will do soon, I've got 5 more drives to move into the server) I would assume I should simply be able to swap the current UnRaid files from the cruzer flash drive to the new lexar firefly using this wiki? Intention is to keep current settings I've already set when using the cruzer micro with a new flash drive.

 

'How do I upgrade my unRAID flash drive to a larger size drive?'

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ#How_do_I_update_files_on_my_flash_drive.3F

 

Thanks.

 

edit: Doesn't seem to be working, the lexar isn't detected as a bootable device but is being seen in BIOS. Cross check and compare data files and numbers to the byte are exactly the same and redoing it doesn't help.

 

edit: Now both flash drives don't. not even a fresh new one. just had some bad weather I wonder if my board got damaged. Clearing CMOS and see how this goes.

You will probably still have to syslinux the new drive.

 

If you can find another use for the Lexar you may want to look at this thread.  It might be a better long term option.

If you go to the disk share and create a root level directory then that directory is already a user share in waiting. So, I would do exactly like you are thinking and just set the include disks field to the disk you want each share to use.

 

If you navigate to the server to access any of this, the disk shares add an extra directory level to navigate. for example.

 

\\tower\disk1\MV  - disk shares

 

vs

 

\\tower\MV  - user shares

 

I have a server with hot-swap bays for 8 drives. I have 3 disks as such

1 - movies

2 - movies

3 - TV

 

I'm now thinking I should have assigned my movies to say disk 1 and 2 and the TV to disk6 so there was spaces 3,4,5 left open for more movie disks and 7 for another TV disk with 8 then being for a disk to hold other stuff.

 

Peter

 

 

If you go to the disk share and create a root level directory then that directory is already a user share in waiting. So, I would do exactly like you are thinking and just set the include disks field to the disk you want each share to use.

 

If you navigate to the server to access any of this, the disk shares add an extra directory level to navigate. for example.

 

\\tower\disk1\MV  - disk shares

 

vs

 

\\tower\MV  - user shares

 

I have a server with hot-swap bays for 8 drives. I have 3 disks as such

1 - movies

2 - movies

3 - TV

 

I'm now thinking I should have assigned my movies to say disk 1 and 2 and the TV to disk6 so there was spaces 3,4,5 left open for more movie disks and 7 for another TV disk with 8 then being for a disk to hold other stuff.

 

Peter

 

 

You can at any time un-assign a data disk from one slot and then re-assign it to another.  It normally will result in a full parity check when you next start the array, but as long as you do not remove or add any disks you can use the trust-my-parity procedure as described in the wiki.

 

Joe L.

You will probably still have to syslinux the new drive.

 

If you can find another use for the Lexar you may want to look at this thread.  It might be a better long term option.

 

I did. I created the first UnRAID files using the instructions on the website. I am using Win7 and for the cruzer used the syslinux via command prompt (ran under admin) then copied the extracted UnRaid (latest) files, this worked fine. I used the same process using both the files from the cruzer and the original downloaded files and it wont get recognised as a boot device. And now even the cruzer doesn't get recognised as a boot device. In BIOS, both flash drives can be recognised and boot sequence is set accordingly. I think (unfortunately) there is something wrong with the board but seriously I hope not. We had a thunder/lightning storm last night and I'd be so annoyed if the usb on the board no longer works. I've tested all the usb ports too, recognisable in BIOS but not recognisable as a bootable device.

 

Edit: Going to try this first:

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation

 

If nothing works there I'll check that my C2SEE has the latest BIOS version and update accordingly. Fingers crossed tonight.

Weirdest fix ever, caused major dramas this one OMFG. Funny thing is I made ZERO changes from when it last worked and to when it stopped working.

 

The fix:

 

Set USB emulation to Forced FDD and set (obviously to match) boot order to FDD. Even my old cruzer with the original unraid files worked. So I prep'ed the firefly with syslinux again and then copied over the files from the cruzer, all worked, retained all settings etc.

 

*PHEW* Time to migrate files.

 

Note: I might suggest adding this one as a fix under: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation

Another question to bump this thread:

 

I'm pulling my hair out on configuring the shares. I prefer to set it up as suggested using the smb-extra.conf BUT, how do I control 'guests' laptops? IE: I want to share majority of what is there, but only want to give everyone else read access while I have read/write?

 

Edit:

 

I think for simplicity's sake, I'll just go ahead with user shares. So when disk 1 MV gets full, I can add another disk and just create a user share called MV2.

 

Edit #2:

Also looking back into the manual I am not seeing all the options because I'm using the free version (for now). Ignore this post...

Another question to bump this thread:

 

I'm pulling my hair out on configuring the shares. I prefer to set it up as suggested using the smb-extra.conf BUT, how do I control 'guests' laptops? IE: I want to share majority of what is there, but only want to give everyone else read access while I have read/write?

 

Edit:

 

I think for simplicity's sake, I'll just go ahead with user shares. So when disk 1 MV gets full, I can add another disk and just create a user share called MV2.

 

What I do is set my rw shares to hidden.  I know they are there but noone else sees them.  Then make visible shares for others either rw or readonly.

Another question to bump this thread:

 

I'm pulling my hair out on configuring the shares. I prefer to set it up as suggested using the smb-extra.conf BUT, how do I control 'guests' laptops? IE: I want to share majority of what is there, but only want to give everyone else read access while I have read/write?

 

Edit:

 

I think for simplicity's sake, I'll just go ahead with user shares. So when disk 1 MV gets full, I can add another disk and just create a user share called MV2.

 

What I do is set my rw shares to hidden.  I know they are there but noone else sees them.  Then make visible shares for others either rw or readonly.

 

Thanks, I'm about to purchase the pro license so I shouldn't stress. Also got my network gbit capable so I'm not able to write at 60-100MB/s as opposed to when I was on wifi-g and it was only doing 10....