Again, a request for the distant future.

 

Very few people fully understand the split level concept.  New users frequently post questions about it.  I'm still often confused by it.  Of all the configuration settings, I consider split level to be the most complicated.  Would it be great if that could all just go away?

 

I propose that the split level setting be automated.  How?  Well, one of several ways.  The first (and in my opinion best) way would be something like this:

 

You click a 'browse' button and browse for a file that is typical of that share.  If the share is movies and you store your movies as ISOs, then you would just choose any old ISO.  unRAID would then analyze the directory structure of that file and use it to determine the appropriate split level (based on how 'nested' the file is).

 

Another method would be:

 

You manually type in all the directories that contain a typical file.  Using the ISO example, it could look like:

Movies

--A Scanner Darkly.iso

 

or

 

Movies

--Animation

----A Scanner Darkly.iso

 

etc.

 

Theoretically, it wouldn't matter how you categorized your movies, since unRAID would just count the directories and assign your split level accordingly.

 

In the short term, maybe a community add-on or script could address this.  At very least someone needs to write up an easy to understand split level guide for the wiki.  I attempted this once, but gave up as I realized that I too didn't understand the concept very well.

Have you seen this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3509.msg30684#msg30684

 

I think it is simpler.

 

As lionelhutz said,

The number is the lowest directory you want to split, not the first one you do not want splitting.

Which is a simpler explanation of the number system.

 

I agree that a simpler explanation is required. Split level has always caused me to pause.

 

Perhaps the GUI could provide more explanation. A graphical representation of your shares could be shown and dynamically updated depending on the share value input by the user.

Hi!

 

Well...I think, that it is not that difficult. After my first unRAID built I wrote down the desired structure of my discs and edited the shares that way. Actually I'm not that much of a fan of fancy colorful GUIs. I like the actual one of unRAID very much.;-)

 

Every tried FlexRaid?

 

Bye.

Have you seen this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3509.msg30684#msg30684

 

I think it is simpler.

Actually, no, I have never seen that before!  It is an improvement, for sure.

 

As lionelhutz said,

The number is the lowest directory you want to split, not the first one you do not want splitting.

Which is a simpler explanation of the number system.

Simpler, yes.

 

Perhaps the GUI could provide more explanation. A graphical representation of your shares could be shown and dynamically updated depending on the share value input by the user.

I like this idea.

 

Actually I'm not that much of a fan of fancy colorful GUIs.

To each his own, I guess.  I think the unRAID interface could use a lot of improvement (which is coming with unRAID 5.0).

 

Every tried FlexRaid?

Nope.

Hi!

 

 

To each his own, I guess.  I think the unRAID interface could use a lot of improvement (which is coming with unRAID 5.0).

Nope.

 

Don't like saying anything bad about other developers software. But the GUI seems to me very confusing. I don't want to see unRAID going that way.

 

Bye.