wokka
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- Aug 13, 2013
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This is my first Freenas build, on 9.1 release and I have nothing production on it yet, just testing a few things to make sure it's going to run smoothly, so all of the data is backed up.
The hardware is an older supermicro server, that has an X6dh8-g2 with a 3ghz processor (e7520 chipset), I've got 4gb of ram in it currently with another 12gb on order, but for testing, this should be fine, I'm not putting a load on it yet. It has an areca 1120 and its on the latest 1.49 bios. I have 6 drives in it in jbod mode, with 6 1tb drives in a raid 10 setup, so three sets of mirrors, extending the same volume. I plan to use this for a lab esxi iscsi as well as file storage for the house.
First day that I connected the drives and installed Freenas, I had no problems, setup the volume and the shares (afp, nfs, cifs and iscsi) and got everything tested. Overnight, it went offline, the console was locked up and it had messages about interupts on the screen (sorry, should have taken a photo, but didn't think about it at the time).
I brought it back online, everything seemed fine. This server was previously an ubuntu linux server, using this same hardware. I added two known good drives (from another system) and a thumb drive for booting. The thumb drive was an older one, I didn't really think it was the issue, but I replaced it with a new sandisk by saving the config off, swapping out the thumb drives, booting and reloading the config. The volume was still there and the shares were still good. I ran out of time working on it that evening and the next day, same problem, crashed overnight and was hard locked.
I then setup email notifications and syslog to my mac pro, hoping if it crashed again overnight, I'd see something. This morning, it wasn't locked up, but the email notification from the daily run output said "One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error." My syslog stopped working on my mac for some unknown reason and I can't get it to start back up, I've now pointed my syslog to a bsd box and will monitor that.
From smartctrl, all 6 disks look fine, no uncorrected errors on any of them, and from the areca-cli, all disks are in an OK state, but as to the individual numbers and RAW data, I'm not sure what I'm looking at, or what I should be looking for. I did a zpool clear and the alert in the freenas page has gone away.
Is there a way to get more info from the message that daily run test? Re-running the 404.status-zfs from the daily periodic reports everything fine. The syslog server didn't receive any messages from freenas since I setup the email notifications and had an error in there in my smtp. I since fixed that problem of course.
Sorry for the long winded post, but I wanted to make sure I gave all of the relevant info and back story, any thoughts would be appreciated.
@Superjock, I'm probably going to try out your email script at some point on the areca cards, your posts about the areca helped me setup some of this, and it's appreciated.
The hardware is an older supermicro server, that has an X6dh8-g2 with a 3ghz processor (e7520 chipset), I've got 4gb of ram in it currently with another 12gb on order, but for testing, this should be fine, I'm not putting a load on it yet. It has an areca 1120 and its on the latest 1.49 bios. I have 6 drives in it in jbod mode, with 6 1tb drives in a raid 10 setup, so three sets of mirrors, extending the same volume. I plan to use this for a lab esxi iscsi as well as file storage for the house.
First day that I connected the drives and installed Freenas, I had no problems, setup the volume and the shares (afp, nfs, cifs and iscsi) and got everything tested. Overnight, it went offline, the console was locked up and it had messages about interupts on the screen (sorry, should have taken a photo, but didn't think about it at the time).
I brought it back online, everything seemed fine. This server was previously an ubuntu linux server, using this same hardware. I added two known good drives (from another system) and a thumb drive for booting. The thumb drive was an older one, I didn't really think it was the issue, but I replaced it with a new sandisk by saving the config off, swapping out the thumb drives, booting and reloading the config. The volume was still there and the shares were still good. I ran out of time working on it that evening and the next day, same problem, crashed overnight and was hard locked.
I then setup email notifications and syslog to my mac pro, hoping if it crashed again overnight, I'd see something. This morning, it wasn't locked up, but the email notification from the daily run output said "One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error." My syslog stopped working on my mac for some unknown reason and I can't get it to start back up, I've now pointed my syslog to a bsd box and will monitor that.
From smartctrl, all 6 disks look fine, no uncorrected errors on any of them, and from the areca-cli, all disks are in an OK state, but as to the individual numbers and RAW data, I'm not sure what I'm looking at, or what I should be looking for. I did a zpool clear and the alert in the freenas page has gone away.
Is there a way to get more info from the message that daily run test? Re-running the 404.status-zfs from the daily periodic reports everything fine. The syslog server didn't receive any messages from freenas since I setup the email notifications and had an error in there in my smtp. I since fixed that problem of course.
Sorry for the long winded post, but I wanted to make sure I gave all of the relevant info and back story, any thoughts would be appreciated.
@Superjock, I'm probably going to try out your email script at some point on the areca cards, your posts about the areca helped me setup some of this, and it's appreciated.
