Hi everyone,

 

unRAID is setup to use "most free" for my "Media" share, however it is not using more than 5 disks, what am i missing? I created the array with just 4 large drives first to copy data from my other server, and now that I have added in several other drives it has since expanded into 2 other drives, but not the others.

 

MediaPublic--18.5 TB37.1 TB

Disk 1:5.43 TB2.34 TB

Disk 2:5.48 TB2.45 TB

Disk 3:5.52 TB2.46 TB

Disk 4:1.08 TB2.91 TB

Disk 5:1.01 TB2.98 TB

 

 

 

root@Dataserver2:/mnt/user/Media# ls
Movies/  Music/  TV\ Shows/  downloads/
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/user/Media# cd "/mnt/"
root@Dataserver2:/mnt# ls
cache/  disk10/  disk12/  disk2/  disk4/  disk6/  disk8/  user/
disk1/  disk11/  disk13/  disk3/  disk5/  disk7/  disk9/  user0/
root@Dataserver2:/mnt# cd disk4
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk4# cd Media
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk4/Media# ls
Movies/  TV\ Shows/  downloads/
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk4/Media# cd "/mnt/disk5/Media"
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk5/Media# ls
Movies/  TV\ Shows/  downloads/
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk5/Media# cd "/mnt/disk6/Media"
-bash: cd: /mnt/disk6/Media: No such file or directory
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk5/Media# cd "/mnt/disk6/"
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk6# ls
root@Dataserver2:/mnt/disk6# 

 

Let me know if I need some logs ^^

 

It could be the Split level setting that is causing this.    If there is any conflict between Allocation Method and Split Level for choosing a drive then Split Level always wins.

Would logs help to prove this theory? Any ideas how to correct it?

The way to correct it would be to have a more relaxed (I.e. higher) value for the Split Level setting.    As to whether it is likely to be the cause for that we would need to know the paths you are using for the files you are trying to put on the array and that information is not in the logs.

So Media is the share, and then downloads, Movies, and TV Shows are underneath that. And under that would be Movies/[Movie Name]/Movie Name.mp4. The first 3 drives carry data from my old collection under Movies that were not in a movie, but everything that is "New" has been put in a sub directory under "Movies". Then TV Shows goes /Show Name/Season/Episode1.mkv

 

 

Ahh ok, so I think I know what's going on. Disks 4 and 5 are 4 TB, Disks 6 and up are 3 TB, so it waited until it used 1 TB and now  I see it has written some stuff to at least one other disk now, so it doesn't go off percentage like I was thinking.