Lumpy_BD Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 (edited) Hi all, I've a strange problem where it looks like the mover is ignoring my allocation methods and is only ever moving files from the cache to a single disk. These are my drives: All of my shares are set to high water allocation, automatic split and no drives are excluded* like this: *To be clear, there is a single share that I have allocated to one drive using the include/exclude flags but I don't think that's relevant here as this issue is happening with a different drive and different shares. The problem I have is that every time I run the mover, it's only ever moving data from my cache to Disk 5. As disk 5 is over 50% full, I would have expected it to start distributing data to the other drives which are all less than 50% full. Everything seemed to be working fine until I added Disk 5 and shuffled some data around in order to encrypt the whole array. I've also attached the diagnostic file but I have no idea where to being to start troubleshooting this. Any ideas? Thanks. tower-diagnostics-20201204-1025.zip Edited December 4, 2020 by Lumpy_BD Solved Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 It's normal, that's how high water works: https://wiki.unraid.net/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#High_Water Quote Link to comment
Lumpy_BD Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 Ahh ok I get it thanks. The part I was misunderstanding was this: Quote The high water level is initially set equal to one-half of the size of the largest disk I was under the impression that it works on 50% of the free space on each separate disk, not the largest disk. Makes sense now. 1 Quote Link to comment
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