andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 Hello: I want to add a flash drive to a pool for cache usage but since I can't create rules for that drive until it's created I want to add it but not use it. I need to filter only certain file types to it. Any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks! Quote
1 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 it sorts by votes by default, which is ... frustrating, IMO. andrewds 1 Quote
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 I think I figured it out. I made a rule with a pattern match of * and selected all of the existing drives. I left unselected "When a new drive is added to the pool, files matching this rule should be placed on that drive." Now I will attempt to add the drive and craft the rest of the rules at a lower priority. Presumably everything will match to * at the top of the list and once I am ready I can remove that rule so new files will follow the rest of the rules. Now I just need to figure out how to force rebalancing so that the existing files are offloaded to the cache disk. I would still appreciate any thoughts or help. Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 I'm not sure tha a flash drive will work with the Pool (eg it needs to be a local disk, and flash drives are categorized differently, usually). But if it works, great! As for the data, I think you may want/need to set the balancing ratio to 100% for the pool, if you want/need it to be more aggressive about balancing. Quote
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 Figured it out. I re-scanned and was prompted to rebalance. It's now balancing the file types I selected out to the cache disk. I've answered this question myself. Quote
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 @Christopher (Drashna)sorry what I mean is a flash SSD. Platform doesn't support NVME. Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 Glad to hear it! And ah, okay. Just "ssd" is fine, as the "flash" part makes it confusing. Quote
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 Sorry to confuse. I work in enterprise IT. Flash is used pretty commonly to differentiate from spinning disk. If I had meant a USB/thumb drive I would have said that. Quote
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) Nevermind, found it! Edited July 18, 2023 by andrewds i was confused Quote
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andrewds
Hello:
I want to add a flash drive to a pool for cache usage but since I can't create rules for that drive until it's created I want to add it but not use it. I need to filter only certain file types to it.
Any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks!
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