Hi unraid team

 

i'm having a very very odd problem, where my user share just refuses to utilize one of my drives.  - Setup is very stable(8 years stable), and is working fine, even with a drive i added as little as a month ago(Disk#18 in screenshot) (pre-clear and added). the drive giving issues now(Disk#19) was previously a cache drive, but pre cleared before adding to the array.

Unraid version 6.4.1 *edit - upgrade to 6.5.2, same issue persists*

 

some of the things i have tried :

• Check on Global share settings (with array stopped). Drive is enabled (nothing excluded)
• check on Share settings for the specific shares - all drives is selected.
• Copy data using MC directlty between drives - opening the user share shows that the files is visible (which makes me believe the drive is part of the share?)

 

Thus the conundrum , why is "Most Free" allocation method not utilizing the drive? (Disk 19 in below screenshot)

TIA!

Neo_X
 

• storage-diagnostics-20180604-2108.zip (version 6.4.1)
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storage-diagnostics-20180604-2158.zip (version 6.5.2)

 

Edited June 5, 20188 yr by Neo_x

What Split Level do you have for the share in question?   Split Level will over-ride the Allocation method if there is any contention as to which disk to use.

6 hours ago, itimpi said:

What Split Level do you have for the share in question?   Split Level will over-ride the Allocation method if there is any contention as to which disk to use.

 

didn't touch split level for a long time (data equally distributed across the other 18 discs). believe it is level 2?

 

sample directory under a share :

 

share name : Movies

Folder 1 : " A"  / "B" / "C"  etc

Folder 2 : "Movie name (year)"

 

currently all the drives contains "Folder 1", with "folder 2" being unique on all the drives.

 

Maybe you are going to need a more relaxed Split Level setting to get the behaviour you want?   Without some example of the paths of your files it is difficult to recommend an optimum Split Level Settings and even whether that is your problem in the first place.   However I must admit I would have thought that new movies should end up on the new disk.

 

have you tried leaving the Included/Excluded disk entries empty for the share (I.e. all drives allowed by Global Settings can be used).   I would also recommend leaving the Global Level entries blank unless their is a good reason not to.   With such a long list of drives if there are any to NOT be used for User Shares maybe the exclude entry makes more sense (you should never use both).

Edited June 5, 20188 yr by itimpi

11 hours ago, Neo_x said:

Thus the conundrum , why is "Most Free" allocation method not utilizing the drive? (Disk 19 in below screenshot)

Because disk18 still has more free space than disk19.

1 minute ago, johnnie.black said:

Because disk18 still has more free space than disk19.

Missed that in the screenshot!   Was intent on looking for a more complicated answer  

5 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

Because disk18 still has more free space than disk19.

 

4 hours ago, itimpi said:

Missed that in the screenshot!   Was intent on looking for a more complicated answer  

 

you had me saying "DUHHHHH" out loud in the office.  (although i always base it on a percentage). will balance/move some data  around tonight to test, but i believe this is definitely the answer!

thank you guys!

I'm having a similar issue and have followed everything in this thread with no solution.  All 5 drives have been in since setup but nothing will go to Disk 5

 

Is disk 5 excluded from the shares under share settings or global share settings?

 

All Shares are set the same as well.   Thanks for the help

Edited November 16, 20196 yr by Yotaman

We need diags and the name of the share you're writing to.

Which logs do you want specifically??  I'm doing almost all my disk usage on the following 2 shares.

 

unyota-diagnostics-20191118-0037.zip

 

 

Edited November 18, 20196 yr by Yotaman

Both shares are set to high water, only when disk 3 has less then 750GB free will Unraid start using disk5

Would you recommend a different allocation method to spread the files out better.

1 minute ago, Yotaman said:

Would you recommend a different allocation method to spread the files out better.

This is the default as most people want to keep related files together.   

If that's important to you can use a different one, like most free, but note that performance will be worse due to overlapping writes to parity.