andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 it sorts by votes by default, which is ... frustrating, IMO. andrewds 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 18, 2023 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share Posted July 18, 2023 @Christopher (Drashna)sorry what I mean is a flash SSD. Platform doesn't support NVME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Glad to hear it! And ah, okay. Just "ssd" is fine, as the "flash" part makes it confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 andrewds Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) Nevermind, found it! Edited July 18, 2023 by andrewds i was confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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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