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DP 1.3.7388 99.9% pool condition

PaalandPaaland
edited February 2013 in DrivePool
I've always had 100% pool condition, but now it has fallen to 99.9% for some reason. I've done a reboot, remeasure and "check duplication consistency, but it's still stuck at 99.9%. I guess a very small number of files (perhaps only one) is not duplicated for some reason. Is there any way to get DP to list out any duplication issues?
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  • tlsrulztlsrulz
    Member
    Ok.. I am seeing this as well 99.9% but I have 1.2.4.7226.. 
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  • PaalandPaaland
    Member
    I never found out why, and I'm still at 99.9%. I annoys me that I cannot figure out what/which files are not being duplicated properly. 
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  • tlsrulztlsrulz
    Member
    Maybe Shane or Alex will chime in on next steps on how to zero down the issue.
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  • ShaneShane
    edited February 2013 Resident Guru
    If a pool fails its duplication consistency check, the pool's condition is rated at 50% regardless of how many or few files failed, and the user will be notified if DrivePool is unable to fix the problem - see http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/comment/3633#Comment_3633 for Alex's explanation of this.

    So 99.9% with no warning is (I presume) likely to be a balancing problem (and I would be annoyed too if I couldn't figure out why). You could try checking C:\ProgramData\StableBit DrivePool\Service\Logs to see if that reveals anything?
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  • PaalandPaaland
    Member
    I have checked the logs and there is nothing there. I've done a rebalance and a "check duplication consistence" neither returns any errors. Not in the UI and not in the logs. And still pool is at 99.9%. Perhaps it's a rounding error :)
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  • tlsrulztlsrulz
    Member
    Me too.. nothing in the logs... and no errors when running "check duplication consistency"
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  • pjakessonpjakesson
    edited February 2013 Member
    Same here. 99.9% and no evident errors.

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  • tlsrulztlsrulz
    Member
    were at 3 and counting :)
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  • ShaneShane
    Resident Guru
    Does a Remeasure have any effect?
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  • PaalandPaaland
    Member
    Not for me. Neither remeasure or check duplication consitency does help.
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  • tlsrulztlsrulz
    Member
    Same here no effect for either
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  • ShaneShane
    edited February 2013 Resident Guru
    Aha. Knew I'd seen the answer somewhere. From the horse's mouth (or in this case, http://blog.covecube.com/2012/08/stablebit-drivepool-1-2-beta/):

    "Sometimes, if you lack any small files on the pool DrivePool will not be able to satisfy the balancing model entirely, or “fill in the gaps” so to speak, but it will come as close as possible given the available files. As you can see in the screen above, it re-balanced to 99.9% accuracy."

    Basically, if you've got 10 files of 10 MB each and 9 drives - or any other similar ratio - it's simply impossible to evenly distribute the content amongst the drives. DrivePool just does the best it can.

    (I do think the UI should be tweaked to make it clear that this is not actually an error in or failure of the pool)
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  • PaalandPaaland
    Member
    Hm. 

    I've got 6 HDDs in my pool ranging from 500GB to 2TB in size. Lots of free space on all disks so balancing should not be a problem.

    But I did a "reset everything to defaults" under the balancing settings in DP and suddenly the pool condition jumped to 100%. I'm pretty sure I already was running with defaults (at least I have not intentionally changed anything there).

    Perhaps one of the (beta) upgrades have had some settings changed that got reset now. Anyhow I'm a happy camper again.
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