I just read through the WIKI you provided...truly a wondrous addition to the knowledge scattered throughout the forums. Thank you - this will save me lots of time scratching my head. Perhaps it might be possible to add something similar for the additional (or more popular) add ons?

 

In any case - many thanks...this is truly great work and very welcome.

Your info on the minimum free space is a little wrong. That setting is the most important when using the fill-up method. It will get used with the other methods but it's not nearly as important.

 

I cheated on the User Shares section and pretty much just listed the options and linked to the un-official manual.  I want to think about the verbiage before I write out info on allocation and split leveling, but if someone wants to beat me to it and make it purty go right ahead!

 

I'm have been trying to write up some parts for the split level and the allocation method but I'll have to expand on the free-space setting as part of this since it all works together. I've created some notes and pictures but if I can't put the pics into the Wiki then it becomes somewhat pointless. So, I've asked Tom for help since the Wiki software supports pics but it just looks to be disabled.

 

Peter

 

I wonder where I got that info from?  I can't find it now and I'm sure it's not something I just made up....  I found the mention of Fill-up being added in the release notes, but it's not listed in the official or the un-official manual.  So will the system leave free on each drive whatever min free space is set to for any allocation method or just for fill up?  Also how (is?) this parameter used when allocation method is set to high water?

 

Even Tom seems to struggle some when explaining split level   It's one of those things that makes sense when you get it, but is really difficult to explain to others...  Physics instructors struggle with this problem all the time

It's used for all of the methods.

 

Peter

Wiki has been updated. Thanks for the catch!

I added a link to this guide in the "read me first" sticky at the top of the General Support forum.  I think it will help a lot of users.  Thanks so much!

Glad to help   I'll keep updating this as things change and will probably morph it into something new for V5 once it's out of beta.  It's still to much of a moving target right now.

Just to say, many thanks for the time taken in putting together this guide - helped me immensely

And much appreciation from me too!  It appears to be great work (a lot of work!), and just the kind of contribution many of us have been hoping for.

 

Looking forward to lots more! 

In the 'Add Drives to the Array' section, I think theres an extra step needed to format the newly precleared disks

 

Had an issue whereby my user share configuration changes weren't sticking, and it turned out to be that there were no running data disks, as everything was unformatted

 

 

In the 'Add Drives to the Array' section, I think theres an extra step needed to format the newly precleared disks

 

Had an issue whereby my user share configuration changes weren't sticking, and it turned out to be that there were no running data disks, as everything was unformatted

Thanks for the heads up.

 

I'll need to configure a VM and test it out and I'll nail down the exact procedure and update the wiki unless someone beats me to it

In the 'Add Drives to the Array' section, I think theres an extra step needed to format the newly precleared disks

 

Had an issue whereby my user share configuration changes weren't sticking, and it turned out to be that there were no running data disks, as everything was unformatted

 

 

I added a few paragraphs to the tutorial describing the need to format the data drives before using them for data or defining user-shares.

 

Joe L.

Thanks Joe!

looks good, thanks guys