wrongworld 5 Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 I'm using Drive Bender 2.3.0.0 on a WHS 2011 / HP Data Vault X510 server. I have a single DB pool composed by two 2TB disks, plus another 1 TB disk. All the directories located on the pool are set to duplicate themselves among the pool, there is no landing zone. On this server I have a torrent client, qBittorrent, that I use quite seldomly. The client is set to use a Downloads directory located on the DB pool, and it's set also to preallocate the space for the file(s) being downloaded. Every once in a while I fire the torrent client, but every time the torrent stops after few seconds due to some access error on the disk. I then restart the torrent and the download is then completed without other failures. I have tried moving temporarily the download directory on a non-pooled disk (it's not an option for me, the drive is used for the WHS clients backup), and it works well there. I've tried to change the torrent client with uTorrent but the same behavior persists. I had the same problems with Drive Bender 1.9.5.0, indeed the switch to v2 was mainly driven by the need to solve this issue. I remember quite well that I've never had problems like that when the same hardware was running WHS 1.0, using Microsoft's Drive Extender. Could it be that the something gets triggered in Drive Bender, such as replicating the preallocated file space, which disturbs the activity of the torrent client? I'd like to know if anybody else has ever experienced the same issue, and if eventually you've found a solution / workaround. Thanks! Edit: typos Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oj88 26 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I have observed similar behavior when using uTorrent. My workaround is to configure "Put new downloads in" to a folder in a non-pooled drive (D:) to use as a scratch space while the files gets downloaded. I then also configured the "Move completed downloads" to a folder in my pooled drive (P:) to free up space on the non-pooled drive once the download is complete. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wrongworld 5 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Well, first of all thanks for having reported your experience. You are confirming my suspect: having the file being "torrented" on a DB pooled drive is causing an error in the torrent client. Since the torrent, once added, starts for few seconds before being disrupted, and since when the size of the downloading file is not so big (can't say how much big, probabluy tens of MB) the glitch sometime doesn't occur, I inferred it has to do with the big file being pre-allocated and afterward being duplicated, while at the same time the torrent client tries to fill the "container" with the incoming data. I'll see if I can make some space on a unpooled partition, I don't like too much the idea but it's better than finding your torrent stopped. Eventually, the DB developer(s) could come out with some info or request more debug data to nail down the issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wrongworld 5 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 FYI: I've opened a support ticket on the matter. I'll let you know the answer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oj88 26 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I should mention that it doesn't always happen. Right now, I have a 170GB torrent being downloaded. Since it is too big to fit the scratch drive (D:), I've set uTorrent to svae it directly to the pooled drive. It's been at it for three days without issues. Usually when I encounter the error, the DB WHS2011 connector also times-out. This is cured by restarting the Dashboard process. To get uTorrent downloading the file again, as you've observed, I have to manually start the download. This seems to point to a DB component that would occassionally lock up. Probably happens more often when uTorrent is using it due to the multiple sessions. Hope this helps your support request. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wrongworld 5 Posted August 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Well, I have received an answer from the company's tech department. They state they were never able to reproduce the error, so it's difficult for them to investigate the case. They'll add the issue to the list of things to be re-checked, but they also wrote that the todo list is quite long (hence, no guarantee that the problem will be eventually fixed, as I read it) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GezoeSloog 0 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Hello. I have the same issue. The only "solution" that I've found is to use an old uTorrent 2.0.4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rinat Karimov 0 Posted February 21 Report Share Posted February 21 Same issue with 3 torrent clients. Last DB version. Cannot download torrents to pooled drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
w3wilkes 202 Posted February 22 Report Share Posted February 22 Have you opened a support ticket? Submit a request – Division-M - Support (division-m.com) Be sure to include specific info. The developer will probably ask you to set some type of logging to collect relevant information. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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