File Placement for New Drives

[ceasley]

I have added a new drive to my pool, and I can't seem to get DrivePool to reshuffle the files to use the space evenly (for balancing).  I have tried ticking the "When a new drive is added to the pool, files matching this rule should be placed on that drive" but it doesn't stay ticked.

 

How can i:

1.) Force a re-balancing pass, and

2.) Have DrivePool re-balance all my files to use the new disk?

 

It should be mentioned I've noticed new files do get written to the disk as expected when using the pool. 

 

This is version 2.2.0.651 Beta running on Windows Server 2016 Standard.

 

EDIT: I was able to get this to behave how I want via the "Disk Space Equalizer" plugin.  I'm still curious why I can't tick the option I mentioned above, though.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

It sounds like it's not saving the settings properly.

 

 Could you try the latest beta build and see if that helps? 

http://dl.covecube.com/DrivePoolWindows/beta/download/StableBit.DrivePool_2.2.0.735_x64_BETA.exe

 

 

As for using the space evenly, that will happen over time, but it doesn't happen by default.  And yes, the "Disk Space Equalizer" balancer would be required in this case. 

[ceasley]

The new version won't keep the box ticked either.

 

Otherwise, everything is working great!  

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Could you run this: 

http://dl.covecube.com/Troubleshooter/StableBit.Troubleshooter.exe

 

Ideally right after making this change?

 

And could you try resetting the settings and see if that helps? 
(this will wipe out the file placement rules, though).

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q2299585B