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It will move pooled files to the other drives. Non-pooled files (i.e. if you have put files on that drive by means other than via the pool) will not be moved and will remain on the drive. If you choose to skip immediate duplication, it will still ma…
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Windows will, in certain circumstances (involving adding/removing physical drives, but I am unsure of exactly what triggers it), bump drive letters around. If this results in changing your pool's drive letter, then WHS's libraries and shares will no…
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Hi, what was the drive letter of your pool before adding the drives and what is it now?
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Something's definitely amiss somewhere. Hopefully Alex will be able to get to the bottom of it.
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Hi, DrivePool 1.3 will have multiple pool support. Release is planned before the end of the year - and, last I heard earlier this week, "coming along nicely". You can get 1.1 stable or 1.2 beta now and update either to 1.3 when it comes out. (in bri…
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I believe PMs can be done by clicking on the person's name and then using the comment box provided. The link I and Paaland provided is the one to use to formally reach Alex, however. Sorry it wasn't more obvious in my post.
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Ugh. At this point rather than try again, I'd contact Alex so he can investigate directly - permissions should not be changing themselves!
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There have been problems running virtual machines from the pool before, e.g.:http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/249/vmware-workstation-fails-when-running-from-a-drivepool-share/p1http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/396/vm-on-pool-drive/p1 Though …
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Hi Rox, yes, it would be more accurate to say that a disk's system partition cannot be added to the pool. Data partitions can be added just fine. WHS 2011's default* installation process formats the first** disk as two NTFS partitions: a 60GB system…
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... ooohkay. Hmm. Are you running *anything* else on the server besides DrivePool? (and re Canada - speaking of wonderful countries etc, definitely in my Top Five)
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Hi, yes, DrivePool works the same way.
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Hi Ron, answer Yes to that question. (sorry for the delay, spend most of today on the road or at job sites - the joys of being a roaming freelance tech; in case you're curious, I'm on Australia's east coast, so timezone is GMT+10)
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Yes, that will work, and it will balance as it goes (according to the free space on the drives).
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Thanks for your patience, Ron. So if I am understanding correctly: 1. you uninstalled drivepool and renamed the stablebitdrivepool folder? 2. you were able to take ownership of, and reset the permissions of, all poolpart folders without error messag…
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Sounds good so far - that particular message window is normal. Inherited permissions: there's a column in the Permissions window titled "Inherited From", which gives the path from which a permission is being inherited. If it's not being inherited, i…
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(hopefully I haven't mangled my post on this try) The problem we're running into is that the filepaths are longer than can be handled by the Command shell, so we'll have to use Explorer instead. For each drive's poolpart folder:* right-click it (to …
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Hmm. Try this (read through first): Uninstall DP.Rename the c:\programdata\stablebitdrivepool folder to stablebitdrivepool.oldFrom an administrator command prompt, run the takeown command against the hidden poolpart folder on each of the drives that…
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Hi Ron, have you tried the permissions reset tool [link]? If that hasn't worked, can you launch a Command Prompt on the server as the Administrator and try the following command? takeown /f p:\* /a /r /d y | findstr /b /v "SUCCESS:" | findstr "." (w…
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When upgrading (from older to newer) you can safely install over the old one; DP will prompt you if a restart is required afterwards. When downgrading (from newer to older, especially from beta to stable) it might not be necessary to uninstall+reboo…
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If you revert back to stable you will still have basic balancing but lose the beta features (balancing plugins, some bugfixes/enhancements, etc). You won't lose data. Remember to reboot between uninstalling the beta and installing the stable.
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Under the latest stable release (1.1.0.6326) I can personally confirm DrivePool allows spindown; I also have Scanner installed (2.1.2601) without issue. Have you other software besides these two running in the background on your server?
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I'd be checking the "owner" of the files/folders. Is the program running as a service, perhaps under its own user account? Also, since you're running a beta version of DrivePool, it may be a beta issue. Have you tried updating to the latest beta ver…
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If it's hidden, it isn't given a drive letter. This means it can't be seen in explorer and other applications which rely on drive letters to be able to see drives and drive content. DrivePool can still see it. Pros: you can attach many pool drives w…
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If the drive is damaged such that it can't be removed from the pool while still present, you can physically disconnect it first before telling DrivePool to remove it from the pool. DrivePool will then (after warning you) skip the normal migration pr…
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True. Perhaps there is a software or firmware update available for the "Devolo AV200" device Gerry mentions? Edit: Gerry, that appears to be an ethernet-over-mains adapter, and shouldn't (in theory) care whether it's ferrying NFS or SMB. While the d…
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Parity doesn't currently appear on the roadmap for DrivePool (unless it's one of those "major new pooling capabilities" Alex wants for 2.0), but if enough people use the Contact form to suggest it maybe we'll get a comment. In the meantime, if you …
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Unless you're going to be pulling multiple streams at once through the same USB controller you shouldn't have a problem, and in that case if you're using a mechanical drive I'd suspect it would become a bottleneck before the controller did. http://e…
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I've now tested CoveFs_ReportAsNtfs set to True with Services for NFS; the pooldrive is still unavailable for NFS usage. I assume that leaves either an update to DP or the use of haneWIN (or similar).
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Some more searching finds one person using a shareware program called "haneWIN NFS Server" - http://www.hanewin.net/nfs-e.htm - to set up NFS shares on the pool, but it was not clear how successful they were. http://forum.covecube.com/discussion/com…
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Hi Gerry, it looks like NFS is supported by WHS 2011 - http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2011/12/23/guide-setting-up-nfs-in-whs-2011/ - but not by DrivePool at this time. Alex attempted to provide support for it back during the M3 beta stage but ran i…