ServerPool Directory

BlueFishey

Hihi

I run a squeezebox server on my WHS2011, now instead of using the share mounts, because of the amount of data and search done, I would like to use the proper path ie \ServerPoolPart.<ID>

Now the problem/issue i hit the max char in a path limit with my music sub directories

Can or will the pre amble after ServerPoolPart ever go ? therefor helping me not hit the Char limit

Blue

 

 

DrTone

That's not the proper path.  That's only one disk, what if your music is spread across multiple disks?

C:\ServerPool\ServerFolders

BlueFishey

I know

But that points to share (ie out side to back in) I want a direct point and i understand this is read only I copy the music to the server from my PC

Blue

BlueFishey

my music is stored on one disk and then duplicated to the other

 

 

DrTone

I know

But that points to share (ie out side to back in) I want a direct point and i understand this is read only I copy the music to the server from my PCBlue

It doesn't go outside and back in.  The network adapter isn't involved at all.  Watch your network utilization, and do a copy from UNC to C:\ directly on your server.  There might be a small amount of overhead but ultimately your CPU should easily be able to handle anything faster than the disk anyway.

In fact if you turn on drive pool's read striping you'll get better performance than reading direct from one disk.

Shane

Hi Blue, in order of preferred use, the paths are:

\\servername\poolfolder\yourstuff

c:\serverpool\serverfolders.mount\poolfolder.duplicationnumber\yourstuff

c:\serverpool\serverfolders\poolfolder\yourstuff

Note that the latter two are NOT network shares, they are filesystem junctions.

Also, do not create/rename/delete any poolfolder itself other than via the Dashboard as it can Mess Things Up.

blctech

I am still confused where to place my videos. I use "MyMovies" and I want to start copying all my videos to the pool file. Shane stated there are 3 places to place the files:

\\servername\poolfolder\yourstuff

c:\serverpool\serverfolders.mount\poolfolder.duplicationnumber\yourstuff

c:\serverpool\serverfolders\poolfolder\yourstuff

On my sysem under the C: drive, I have ServerPool and under that I have ServerFolders and ServerFolderMount. The WHS 2011 system has a shared directory call Videos. Should I move that directory to the pool or just create a new directory in the pool and copy all of my videos to that directory. And where is the pool located so I can created the new file or move the shared Videos directory to?

I noticed that on each of my drives in the pool, there is a directory called ServerFolders. Is this correct?

Thanks

teddyboy

Hi blctech,

You should use the first one which is a UNC path. My Movies likes UNC paths and folder monitoring tends to work better with UNC paths. The last two are not real shares but junctions. Folder monitoring can get confused when you try to use junctions or direct paths in combination with UNC paths. Sometimes it will think that they are two different folders and you can end up with duplicates.

Allways go through the network share \\servername\poolfolder\yourfolder

Using a UNC path will allow the system to manage the data locations for you because your movies can then be spread over several hard drives without you having to worry about specific locations. :-)

 

blctech

Hi teddyboy. Thanks for that info. One question. I don't see a folder called poolfolder  on the server or is that just a stand in name. When I do a directory for \\dvd-serve2 (which is my server name), I get 3 directorys:Documents, Pictures, and Videos. I remember moving my Videos fold to the pool when when I try to access it as in  \\dvd-serve2\videos it says "the device is not ready". Documents and Pictures work

Is poolfolder a shared folder that I can point MyMovies to.

teddyboy

Hi blctech,

Thats just a stand-in name for what ever folder name you would be using. In may case DVDs is the folder name on my server that has all my dvds and blu-rays. I'm not using Drivepool at this time, and I won't until is actually released, but that really doesn't matter. What I did was create the DVDs folder with in the WHSv1 console. Once I did that I simply pointed MyMovies to that folder using a UNC path. I'm not sure why you are not able to access your Videos folder. From what I understand you should be able to move that folder into the pool. You could try creating another folder in the pool called movies and see if you can access that, or try rebooting your server to see if you can gain access.

blctech

Thanks teddyboy. It was some "sharing access" problem in WHS2011. I created an new directory, moved the Videos folder to that directory then moved the Videos folder into the pool. It worked. It seem WHS2011 has some strange sharing protocols.

Thanks for the help on the UNC paths. Made everything work well!!!