I have my discs as such... my user shares are set to high-water, split-level 2 or depending, no discs included or excluded... 

 

The Unraid has kept filling up disks 1-5, ignoring 6 and 7... I tried making a folder with the same structure on disk6, and manually copying files there... but instead of aggregating the shares, I get two identical folder named Music Guitar:

 

 

??? What do I do?  ???

You must have the capitalization different when you created the directories by hand.

 

Without posting the exact share settings, AND the unRAID version you are using, and the existing directory structure, and where you are trying to add files, there is no way to help you further.  You might have the min-free setting wrong, or the split level wrong for where you are trying to create the new files.

 

You did not give the detail needed to figure out what is happening. Where are you trying to create the new files?

 

Joe L.

 

 

Hi Joe,

 

Here is the share settings for Video... I don't know where the min-free setting is, so it's the default:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Disk 5 is disabled in the include settings, because after I had problems with the disc the other day, I decided only to move backup data from my main PC there... there's some video there from before though)

 

On disks 1-5 I have

 

diskx

    -Video

        -Music Guitar

                -Some Guitar Movie 1

                -Some Guitar Movie 2

 

I just created an identical structure on disk6, "Video" and "Music Guitar" have the same capitalization as on the other drives...

 

I drug a guitar movie into disk6>Video>Music Guitar...

 

But then when I go to the Video share, you can see in the screencap above that there's two Music Guitar shares... one has discs 1-5, one has disc6.  (The folder color doesn't seem to matter... I changed it to green, then I had two green folder shares)

 

I'm running 4.5.6 (with the latest of your excellent unmenu )

 

 

 

Ah, figured it out... there was a sneaky space hiding after the directory. 

Ah, figured it out... there was a sneaky space hiding after the directory.   

That would do it... and be very hard to see.

Well, you're just being impatient.

 

High water does multiple passes filling the disks part way up each time. The intent is to balance the free space on all the disks, not balance the amount of data on all the disks. This becomes very apparent when equal amounts of data do not go to each disk in a mixed disk size system. I looked at a case using a 160gig and 2T disk and the 160gig disk does not get put into use until the 2T disk is 87.5% full or has less than 250gig of free space.

 

It appears you are on the high-water = 500gig pass for your disks. This means all disks will fill until they have <500gig free. So, the disk6 will not begin to fill until all the other disks (excluding disk5) have less than 500gig free on them. Try adding more files. Disk6 should come into play when disk4 gets above 67% used. If disk4 is filling right now then keep going on it ans see what happens.

 

Now, some of the other disks have less than 500gig free but I don't know what other shares you have. Also, it should be trying to fill each disk until there is <500gig free and maybe you are tranferring big files that will put you way under 500gig free. The disk starts at just over 500gig free but by the time you move that big file you're well below 500gig.

 

Now, having written the above, according to the official high water definition/expanation, your disk7 should have filled until it had 500gig free before the others began to fill until they have 500gig free. Not sure why on that one, but if disk6 starts filling once disk4 gets below 500gig free just wait and see what happens when disk6 gets below 500gig free.

 

As already posted, without knowing all your shares and the full structure being stored on your server it's hard to know what's going on. Knowing what disk is being filled right now is a tell too.

 

Peter

 

Thanks Peter, it did finally flip over to disc6...

 

It filled up disc 1-2, each to 88 percent (~250GB) free, before finally flipping down... I was expecting to see it at 500GB free, which is why I started to worry... but it's all good now!

Well, then you are rigth, it doesn't sound like the High Water is working correctly.

 

High water should start with a free space target that is 1/2 of the largest disk size and fill all disks until they have that much free space. So, the first target would be 1TB. Since disk6 and disk7 start below this, they don't get filled at all.

 

Then, it should reset to an new target that is 1/2 of the previous target and fill again. In your case, the new target would be 500gig and all the drives should be filled until they have 500gig free.

 

No drives should be filled until there is only have 250gig free until all have reached the 500gig free mark. You are not copying 230gig files to your server, correct?

 

I would email Limetech and get Tom's opinion.

 

Peter