Proposed FreeNAS Build

Stux · May 21, 2017

Now would be a really good time to refresh your backup...

thedirtmerchant · May 22, 2017

I was starting to look into moving some of my files into the Plex folders and trying to start setting up Sonarr/Radarr etc.

But then I saw it mentioned about security and VPN...about which I am generally clueless.

Any simple/newbie walkthrus VPN and how and why, available?

diedrichg · May 22, 2017

There are plenty of low-cost VPN services ($5-10/mo). I've been fine with Astraweb using the SSL connection for the past 6 years.

thedirtmerchant · May 22, 2017

Stux said:
Now would be a really good time to refresh your backup...

Right now everything I have is on Amazon Drive.

I also had 2 3TB Seagate external drives that had copies of everything and were offsite. 1 failed a couple months ago and the other...I'm worried about (only because the other one failed). I'll get another soon and have it as a separate backup...but I'm not in a rush. I'm pretty confident in Amazon Drive.

Speaking of which...I actually need to get everything off of Amazon Drive...and I've only tested 1 folder of about 300 pictures...but does everything come off as a zip file? Is there a way around that? I'd rather just get the files directly instead of downloading zips and then extracting...

thedirtmerchant · May 22, 2017

diedrichg said:
There are plenty of low-cost VPN services ($5-10/mo). I've been fine with Astraweb using the SSL connection for the past 6 years.

Nothing free?

thedirtmerchant · May 22, 2017

Should I create a new thread for the build with pictures? Or just post the pictures here (on Page 10?)

thedirtmerchant · May 22, 2017

thedirtmerchant said:
Nothing free?

I've seen pfSense mentioned...?

Stux · May 22, 2017

thedirtmerchant said:
Should I create a new thread for the build with pictures? Or just post the pictures here (on Page 10?)

I'd post a build thread

diedrichg · May 22, 2017

thedirtmerchant said:
Nothing free?

Nothing that's fast enough. Too much traffic on the free ones with flaky connections. pfsense - would be just VPN on your own network on your own hardware - no anonymity (plus you can't VPN into your own network within your own network, you have to be outside your LAN). Torrenting? Yes, get a VPN. Usenet? Just use the provider's SSL connection.

thedirtmerchant · May 23, 2017

diedrichg said:
When the time comes, post some build photos as well as the finished product, please.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/first-legit-build.54774/

I'll add some finished product pics when it gets to its final location. Still have this behemoth sitting next to my main desk ready to crack open as I still have to finish setup of the 2nd pool using the old disks...

thedirtmerchant · May 25, 2017

So, a few times the server has shutdown on it's own.
I took a look at one of the log files for the mobo via IPMI and saw this:

Code:

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1 2017/05/15 14:24:55 Watchdog 2 #0xca Watchdog 2 Timer Interrupt - Assertion
2 2017/05/15 14:24:56 Watchdog 2 #0xca Watchdog 2 Hard Reset - Assertion
3 2017/05/16 15:30:18 Watchdog 2 #0xca Watchdog 2 Timer Interrupt - Assertion
4 2017/05/16 15:30:19 Watchdog 2 #0xca Watchdog 2 Hard Reset - Assertion

Don't see much about it except when it detects a OS failure, watchdog countdowns and then resets (shuts down?)
Manual for my mobo says this is a jumper for it. Open is disabled (Pin 1-2 was default "Reset").

Disabled is OK, right?

thedirtmerchant · May 25, 2017

I'm prepared to take my 2 old drives and setup a "new" and separate pool in mirror. But...what should I name it? I don't want to use tank again obviously. Is there a thumb rule? dozer?

Stux · May 25, 2017

thedirtmerchant said:

Thing is, the watchdog should only reset your system, if the system fails to pat the dog, which is supposed to happen regularly.

Which implies your system locked up, or the dog patting didn't happen because of a bug.

So, disable the watchdog, and maybe you'll be able to workout what's happening, but don't expect it to fit the issue. If it does you have an interesting issue too ;)

diedrichg · May 25, 2017

thedirtmerchant said:
I'm prepared to take my 2 old drives and setup a "new" and separate pool in mirror. But...what should I name it? I don't want to use tank again obviously. Is there a thumb rule? dozer?

No rules other than: do NOT use "pool" or, I think, "freenas". Mine is our initials. Have fun with it.

Ericloewe · May 25, 2017

Any name that could be mistaken for something else is bad. Especially known Unix words like root and ZFS/zpool commands.

Stux · May 25, 2017

"tank" is the traditional name

"dozer" is his brother

thedirtmerchant · May 25, 2017

Decided on dozer.

thedirtmerchant · May 26, 2017

Stux said:
Thing is, the watchdog should only reset your system, if the system fails to pat the dog, which is supposed to happen regularly.

Which implies your system locked up, or the dog patting didn't happen because of a bug.

So, disable the watchdog, and maybe you'll be able to workout what's happening, but don't expect it to fit the issue. If it does you have an interesting issue too ;)

Understood.
I THINK (emphasis on think) that at least one of the times the watchdog kicked in was when I was putzing around in the BIOS, then went to go do something away from the computer
for a while while still in there and when I came back it was off. Maybe the watchdog doesn't get patted in BIOS?

thedirtmerchant · May 27, 2017

OK, so couple issues today (so much ugh).

1. I have 3 of my 8 drives connected via the

LSI3008 controller for 8 SAS3 (12Gbps) ports; RAID 0,1,10 (I'm pretty sure I flashed to IT mode, but I'm starting to question this...)

using THIS cable

I set up some of those scripts in the Biduel0hm thread, in which at the end, someone updated and put together a zpool/HDD script.
There is one for SATA and the SAS one is not there yet. However...when I run the script, it returns data for all 8 of my drives.
As I understand it, since SAS connected drives return data differently (or something), I should get nothing in my info summary for
the SMART portion. However, da0, da1 and da2 are all returning info. Thoughts?

OK, that's problem 1.

Problem 2: I woke up and checked my email and I had 2 emails:
starting first scrub (since reboot) of pool 'freenas-boot'

and

The boot volume state is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.

and this alert when I go into the GUI:

CRITICAL: May 27, 2017, 3:45 a.m. - The boot volume state is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.

Is my SSD boot drive SSD having serious problems?

Not quite sure...smartctl -a /dev/ada0 returns:

Code:

Device is:		In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:	Sat May 27 10:21:41 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
										was never started.
										Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:	  (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
										without error or no self-test has ever
										been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:				(  120) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:					(0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate.
										No Auto Offline data collection support.
										Suspend Offline collection upon new
										command.
										No Offline surface scan supported.
										Self-test supported.
										No Conveyance Self-test supported.
										No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:			(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
										power-saving mode.
										Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:		(0x01) Error logging supported.
										General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:		(   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:		(  10) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME		  FLAG	 VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE	  UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Retired_Block_Count	 0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
  9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032   000   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   593h+00m+00.000s
 12 Power_Cycle_Count	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   63
165 Unknown_Attribute	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   6750210
166 Unknown_Attribute	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
167 Unknown_Attribute	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
168 Unknown_Attribute	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
169 Unknown_Attribute	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
170 Reserve_Block_Count	 0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
171 Program_Fail_Count	  0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
172 Erase_Fail_Count		0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
173 Unknown_SandForce_Attr  0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct  0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   44
187 Reported_Uncorrect	  0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
188 Command_Timeout		 0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
194 Temperature_Celsius	 0x0022   060   054   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   40 (Min/Max 0/46)
199 SATA_CRC_Error_Count	0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
230 Life_Curve_Status	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   100   100   004	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   100
233 SandForce_Internal	  0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
234 SandForce_Internal	  0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   2
241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB	 0x0030   253   253   000	Old_age   Offline	  -	   2
242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB	  0x0030   253   253   000	Old_age   Offline	  -	   117
244 Unknown_Attribute	   0x0032   000   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

Thoughts?

thedirtmerchant · May 27, 2017

Ok, i think problem 1 is my lack of knowledge. Thought SATA drives connected through a SAS port would act as SAS drives. Problem 2...still a thing

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