tylerdotdo

I'm trying to move some files around on my drive pool, and I need to evacuate a large iscsi drive. The proper process of removing the drive will lock my pool up for a few days, but I want to continue to use the pool to write data to while the removal is happening. Can I avoid this by manually going into the poolpart and moving the files to another drive's poolpart? Will that freak out the drivepool? I've already excluded my drive I'd like to remove from the file placement, along with disabling any automatic balancing.

Hey guys, Drivepool has served me well for over 10 years. Unfortunately, I'm moving over to Unraid. Nothing to do with Drivepool itself; it works fantastic. I just can't get Snapraid to work in conjunction with it, and I need that extra layer of backup. So my question is, I do need to evacuate off of the Drivepool one drive at a time, and I don't have enough room to empty a drive, remove it, and then go to the next drive. I was wondering if it was possible to move files directly off of a particular drive's poolpart folder instead? Will it cause Drivepool to freak out in any way?