Apologies to all.
I am not very conversant with linux or freenas.
My problem is.
I have a HP Proliant microserver with 16gb memory on board.
I have 4 disk drives of 2Tb running in a 2 x 2 raid sort of setup (here I am drawing on memory from setup by son in law IT geek bloke).
Everything was going hunky dory for a number of years until trouble struck.
I had to replace a hard drive - errors showing (freenas 11.1).
So I thought - Ok I'll just transfer all my files onto a large Tb hard drive. AARrgh smb no longer worked. It seems that I went to do this we had a cracker storm and there was power surges and electricity bits flying everywhere. The end result was the thumb drive running freenas was dead.
So - I thought I would replace the drive, burn the new freenas 11.2 U6 and away we go. Well sort of.
11.2 booted - allowed me to load the new drive, import the pool, showed all disks online - albeit with no space left!!! and THEN
I am now stuck in a condensing nightmare. The microserver has been cranking now for over two weeks.
It shows on the screen the following line:
condensing: txg (sequence of 8 numbers), msp[2,3 numbers] 0xfffff(then varying number letter combos totalling 11), vdev id (0 or 1 ), spa zfs - (drive name)
The sequence of 8 numbers appears to be gradually increasing - but man when is it finished?
I've got a screen shot to possibly explain better?
Any advice? I'm thinking that I might have to go back to 11.1 on the usb drive - reboot and try and receover my data that way? (read into this the wife will kill me if 30 years of photos are gone)
Yeah yeah - I am hearing the (what about your regular backup regime????) - it is now going to be on my list.
Patrick
I am not very conversant with linux or freenas.
My problem is.
I have a HP Proliant microserver with 16gb memory on board.
I have 4 disk drives of 2Tb running in a 2 x 2 raid sort of setup (here I am drawing on memory from setup by son in law IT geek bloke).
Everything was going hunky dory for a number of years until trouble struck.
I had to replace a hard drive - errors showing (freenas 11.1).
So I thought - Ok I'll just transfer all my files onto a large Tb hard drive. AARrgh smb no longer worked. It seems that I went to do this we had a cracker storm and there was power surges and electricity bits flying everywhere. The end result was the thumb drive running freenas was dead.
So - I thought I would replace the drive, burn the new freenas 11.2 U6 and away we go. Well sort of.
11.2 booted - allowed me to load the new drive, import the pool, showed all disks online - albeit with no space left!!! and THEN
I am now stuck in a condensing nightmare. The microserver has been cranking now for over two weeks.
It shows on the screen the following line:
condensing: txg (sequence of 8 numbers), msp[2,3 numbers] 0xfffff(then varying number letter combos totalling 11), vdev id (0 or 1 ), spa zfs - (drive name)
The sequence of 8 numbers appears to be gradually increasing - but man when is it finished?
I've got a screen shot to possibly explain better?
Any advice? I'm thinking that I might have to go back to 11.1 on the usb drive - reboot and try and receover my data that way? (read into this the wife will kill me if 30 years of photos are gone)
Yeah yeah - I am hearing the (what about your regular backup regime????) - it is now going to be on my list.
Patrick