June 11, 201016 yr Getting confused with split levels and allocation method. So was wondering if someone could advise me. Going to have a Four Disk Array (1 Parity 3 Data) Below is the Shares Im going to have (shares are in capitals) SABNZBD Log Incomplete Complete Would like it to stay on Disk1 MOVIES Monsters Inc Monsters.mkv Toy Story Toys Story.mkv Would like a Monster Inc folder and files within to stay on the same disk on any disk, E.g. Monsters Inc folder can be allocated to disk 1 and the Toy Story Folder and its files allocated to disk 2 PICTURES Wedding Pics ‘Lots of jpg’s Someones Birthday ‘Lots of jpg’s Would like Picture subfolders to be stored on the same disk on any disk. E.g. Wedding Pics on disk1 and Birthday pics on disk 2 VIDEOS ‘’Lots of videos’ Would like videos to be spread over all disks MUSIC Singles ‘lots of mp3’s’ What’s the story Morning Glory ‘lots of mp3’ Monkees – Best of.. ‘lots of mp3’ Would like the Singles folder to be spread over all disks Would like an album to be stored on the same disk on any disk E.g. Monkees album on disk2, Oasis album on disk3 USER User1 ‘Lots of folders, documents & files’ User2 ‘Lots of folders, documents & files’ Don’t mind users being stored on any disk but would like that user’s files, folders & documents kept together. E.g. User 1 on disk 3, User 2 on disk 4. So if someone could just put the split level, allocation, disks to include/exclude next to each share e.g MOVIES SPLIT – 2, ALL – HW, DISK IN – 1&2, DISK EX – 3 Many Thanks
June 11, 201016 yr SABNZBD - Set to include Disk1, nothing else really matters MOVIES - split level = 1 PICTURES - split level = 1 VIDEOS - use some high split level number such as 50 MUSIC - what you ask is not possible USER - split level = 1 I'd just set the allocation to high water for all. The shares allowed to go on all disks don't need any disk include or exclude settings. Peter
July 5, 201016 yr Author I set the split level for movies to 1 and high water Started with 2 x empty 750gb drives. On disk 1 - 56% of the disk is used On disk 2 - 1% of the disk is used Is there any reason it hasn't started to allocated movies to disk to yet? Or should the split level be set to 2?
July 9, 201015 yr Author Disk 1 - 69% used Still hasn't started to allocated to Disk 2, going to try split level 2
July 11, 201015 yr You got something goofy going on if it won't split. Using split level 2 you could end up with multiple "Monsters Inc" and "Toy Story" directories on different drives. But, you don't have to believe me. How big is disk1 and disk2? Say disk 1 is 1T and disk 2 is 500gig. I don't thing it'll switch to disk2 until disk1 is at 750gig. Then, the remaining free space on disk1 is less than half the free space of disk2. Level 1 means the share can split but no directories in the share can split. If you are not getting the splits then I recommend contacting support and questioning Lime why it's not working. Read through this. Starting about the end of the first page, Unraided and I began a bunch of back and forth and he finally did some excellent tests with posted results on page 3. The whole thread goes around a bit but, hopefully, reading that will help. The thread starter then responds right after that he did further tests and level 1 was correct and he uses the same structure as you are describing. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5949.0 Peter
July 11, 201015 yr Is this correct? TV is Share Name //tower/TV/Shows/Battlestar Galactica/Season 1 --------1----2-------------3-------------4---- Does up above mean if I want to keep all of the Files from Season 1 together to use Split level 4? I care, but its acceptable if Seasons span the array, but I'd like to keep all of the files from "each Season" together Just as well for movies. Movies is Share Name //tower/Movies/720/Army of Darkness ---------1------2-------3---------- If I want to keep all of the files for "Army of Darkness" together I should use Split Level 3?
July 11, 201015 yr Author You got something goofy going on if it won't split. Using split level 2 you could end up with multiple "Monsters Inc" and "Toy Story" directories on different drives. But, you don't have to believe me. How big is disk1 and disk2? Say disk 1 is 1T and disk 2 is 500gig. I don't thing it'll switch to disk2 until disk1 is at 750gig. Then, the remaining free space on disk1 is less than half the free space of disk2. Level 1 means the share can split but no directories in the share can split. If you are not getting the splits then I recommend contacting support and questioning Lime why it's not working. Read through this. Starting about the end of the first page, Unraided and I began a bunch of back and forth and he finally did some excellent tests with posted results on page 3. The whole thread goes around a bit but, hopefully, reading that will help. The thread starter then responds right after that he did further tests and level 1 was correct and he uses the same structure as you are describing. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5949.0 Peter Thanks for the help, i have no doubt that split level is correct, but for some reason its not working. I have 2 x 750gb data disks. But i will wait till disk 1 is 75% full then see if its starts splitting
July 11, 201015 yr Is this correct? TV is Share Name //tower/TV/Shows/Battlestar Galactica/Season 1 --------1----2-------------3-------------4---- Does up above mean if I want to keep all of the Files from Season 1 together to use Split level 4? I care, but its acceptable if Seasons span the array, but I'd like to keep all of the files from "each Season" together Just as well for movies. Movies is Share Name //tower/Movies/720/Army of Darkness ---------1------2-------3---------- If I want to keep all of the files for "Army of Darkness" together I should use Split Level 3? Your numbering is correct. The split level is the number of the last folder you want to split. You are 1 number too high for both examples. In this post; http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5949.msg57105#msg57105 Your "Season 1" is at the same level as "The Departed" level so this great example corresponds exactly to your TV structure. Peter
July 11, 201015 yr As another option, you could use split level 0. For owen1978, you manually go to each disk and create a Movies directory. Then, these will be used and no movies below these will split. For kizer, you could create a Movies directory and a 720 subdirectory on each disk, as well as a SD subdirectory, a 1080 subdirectory, a Kids subdirectory etc etc depending on what you are using to sort your movies. Then, any movie placed would get put in this structure you created but never split. Basically, split level 0 means "never split a directory unRAID has to create itself". I've never tried it but it's supposed to work. A more complex directory structure like TV with seasons could be a pain to create. But then, you could control which series you allow to split between disks and even which drive different series go to. Peter
July 12, 201015 yr Thats exactly why I honestly tried to keep it simple without racking my brain. Here is my current setup since I have everything looked at by two HTPC's. One is an older one that doesn't display 720/1080 very well and the other will read anything so I tried to come up with a logical method of storing so they could each look at things in their own way. Of course knowing how it works on my drives is easy, but figuring out the split level stuff began to really confuse me. I haven't even began to tinker with my music collection. //Tower ---- Now set to Split Level 2 Per your help .....Movies/ ..........480/ < Both HTPCs can view ...............Akira/ ..........720/ < Only one HTPC can view ...............Transformers ..........ISO/ < Both can view ................007 Collection/ .....................Dr No/ .....................For Your Eyes Only ..........Uploads/ < Neither can view. Its kinda my process folder //Tower ---------Set to Split Level 3 per your help .....TV/ ..........Shows/ < Both HTPCs can view ...............BattleStar Galactica/ ....................Season 1/ .........................BattleStar Galactica - S01E01 - 33.avi ..........Uploads/ < Neither can view
July 17, 201015 yr Author Ok did a test Copied a folder with some holiday pics from my desktop on my laptop to the movies share - it split it to disk 2 (which is correct) So.... looks like split works.... so what is causing my movies not to be split to disk 2? My theory is that is got to do with sabnzbd... Sabnzbd uses disk 1 to to download the films to in a share called sabnzbd and within that share is a folder called done I then used a script which i created in the unmenu user script section which moves films from /disk1/sabnzbd/done to /usr/movies im thinking that the unraid see's that the data to be moved is already on disk1 so it just takes the lazy approach and just keeps some on disk1 but indexes them into the movies share on disk1 What do you think?
July 18, 201015 yr I then used a script which i created in the unmenu user script section which moves films from /disk1/sabnzbd/done to /usr/movies im thinking that the unraid see's that the data to be moved is already on disk1 so it just takes the lazy approach and just keeps some on disk1 but indexes them into the movies share on disk1 There's a post by Limetech confirming as much, somewhere in the forums here.
July 18, 201015 yr Author Done some more testing and i confirm it is sabnzbd folders - I have set the split level on the sabnzbd share to 3. And changed the config so sabnzbd uses /user instead of /disk1 so then unraid will split it correctly! Thanks for all who have helped! Hope this posts helps someone else in the future!
July 19, 201015 yr See, maybe not goofy but you are definately doing something different than how an unRAID server normally gets used. Peter
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