Hello everyone,

I do not understand why my disk 1 is always filled before others. I arrive at more than 70% while the disk 2 is filled to only 50% and the disk 3 to 0%.

My Allocation method is High-Water for my sharing and i haven't excluding a disk.

 

Thank you for your help.

Post a screenshot of the Main Tab showing this.  

Allocation Method must be "Most Free" - then all Disks will be filled consistent.

High-water is the wrong setting.

Edited November 12, 20178 yr by Zonediver

That's what high-water does.  Turn on the help text, there's a good explanation.

25 minutes ago, tdallen said:

That's what high-water does.  Turn on the help text, there's a good explanation.

 

Hm???

There are "3" Options: High-water, Fill-up and Most-free...

High-water "is not" Most-free

Edited November 6, 20178 yr by Zonediver

8 minutes ago, Zonediver said:

 

Hm???

There are "3" Options: High-water, Fill-up and Most-free...

High-water "is not" Most-free

I think tdallen was replying to OP and not you.

 

And his advice is good for OP.

Just now, trurl said:

I think tdallen was replying to OP and not you.

 

And his advice is good for OP.

 

Yep - looks like

But with the quoted values of 70%, 50%, and 0% is why I wanted to see a screenshot, because highwater doesn't work the way many people expect them to with drives of different sizes, and 70/50/0 implies the 3rd disk is smaller

This is my main tab :

 

 

Disk1 is occuped at 73%, Disk2 is occuped at 50% and Disk3 is free 0%.

My Allocation method is High-Water for all shared.

Edited November 12, 20178 yr by snake382

Its working right.

 

Highwater:

 

1. Fill disk 1 til its @ 1TB
2. Fill disk 2 til its @ 1TB
3. Fill disk 1 til its @ 500GB
4. Fill disk 2 til its @ 500GB
5. Fill disk 3 til its @ 500GB
6. Fill disk 1 til its @ 250GB
7. Fill disk 2 til its @ 250GB
8. Fill disk 3 til its @ 250GB

 

High water marks are all based upon the largest drive in the array.  Not each individual drive

I understand but then how to avoid filling the disk1 too much and better share the data between disk1; 2 and 3?

Most Free or split levels or excluding disks from shares or get matching drives.

if i change in most free my shared I will lose all my data?

Nope

If I understand well in the current situation once I reach the 1.5tb on my disk1 it will fill the second up to 1.5tb also the third up to 500gb?

Edited November 12, 20178 yr by snake382

correct

ok thank you !!

4 hours ago, snake382 said:

ok thank you !!

 

lol??? Havent you read my post (#3) ? I told you, that "Most-free" is the correct setting for your problem...

On 12/11/2017 at 7:31 PM, Zonediver said:

 

lol??? Havent you read my post (#3) ? I told you, that "Most-free" is the correct setting for your problem...

 

Yes i have read your post but in my situation and after reflexion my configuration "High Water" is good for me ! Thank you

Note that split level comes into play. If a directory cannot be split, files written to that directory are always placed on the same physical disk, regardless of allocation method.  You need to tune both to get your user shares to work correctly. Split level is particularly important to get right with the most free setting.