hey there,

 

i plugged in my ntsc disk into unraid to preclear it while my array is running.

 

 

 

preclearing started as it should in pre-read.

 

while it was preclearing i started to copy some larger files from my windows PC to unraid share "movies/language/"

(internal target was: //disk1/movies/language/ )

 

after successfully copying 1 or 2 movies, it said "cant copy the next file. target not found. retry? abort?"

so i looked into my unraid and found this structure:

 

//disk1/movies/movies/language

 

I never created this (100% sure) and I checked exactly where to copy those files some minutes before.

it was shares : movies/language and i don't understand, how this could happen.

 

in this evil-twin-sub folder i found all files, i copied earlier.

 

so i thought this must be an error by unRaid, somehow reading my disk wrong at the moment.

i clicked "stop array", but even after 10 minutes a click on "refresh" brings up nothing. at the moment its even only a 404 not found error.

 

now i thought unraid is completely shut down, but ... putty still showed updates on my preclearing process.

 

 

whats happening here?

 

pre-clearing has absolutely nothing to do with unRAID's being started, stopped, or even defined at all. 

 

Shares "movies/language IS actually on one of the disks, so the exact same files will also be known as disk1/movies/language

(Actually the specific disk might vary depending on your configuration, but the "user-share consolidated view" is just a different way of looking at the files on the disk shares.  You did create the file structure, implicitly.

 

As far as why it could not copy the next files, a syslog from the time of the error would have helped.  It could have been anything from a disk error to a disk running out of space, to a router problem, to a windows problem.

 

Remember, user-shares is just in memory, a simulated view of the disk shares.  It is not an evil twin, but how it works underneath it all.

i plugged in my ntsc disk...

 

Did you mean NTFS (the primary Windows file system)?  NTSC is a DVD format used in North America and Japan...

i plugged in my ntsc disk...

 

Did you mean NTFS (the primary Windows file system)?  NTSC is a DVD format using in North America and Japan...

 

sry, i messed up with the short forms.

of course: NTFS disk, not NTSC or PAL

 

yes Joe, like i said, after i looked into my mc, there was: /mnt/sda/movies/movies/languages

 

my initial movies folder was empty, there was only a "movies" folder in it.

i understand the usage of shares.

i just tried to give you every point of view :-)

 

never the less, i canceled preclear, did a reboot

and everything was back up right in place again.

 

(and i only mentioned preclearing, because it was in progress at the same time)