Slowly losing space (graphs show it disappearing)

[Jason Brunk]

I recently had to rebuild my freenas box. Been using freenas since 2004. Pretty comfortable with it. But I have noticed something odd lately.

I put 6 x 2tb drives in as 2 raidz vdevs in a pool.

I got an alert that I was almost full and I looked and it said I had 5.2 tb of storage total. Seemed odd, but ok. I added another raidz vdev (3 x 1.5tb) and it showed I added another 2.7 tb to my storage. Cool. That was just a couple days ago which put me around the 8tb of storage. But now my vol is showing a total space of 6.4tb.

Am I missing something?

6 x 2tb drives + 3 x 1.5tb = 6.4tb? I know there is the obvious loss for parity and file system ect ect. But what I would assume before file system space to be around 11tb is now reporting at 6.4tb. Thats over 4TB of missing storage.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.

 

[jgreco]

If you're not using FreeNAS 8, 9, or 10, the product you are running is probably now known as NAS4Free, and is an entirely different project.

 

[Jason Brunk]

If you're not using FreeNAS 8, 9, or 10, the product you are running is probably now known as NAS4Free, and is an entirely different project.

I am running freenas 9.3

 

[enemy85]

Add a picture of your "storage" tab in the web gui. It can help to understand

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[Jason Brunk]

Here is the storage tab (adding more to my confusion :) )

Here is the df -h from the freenas box itself as well

 

[enemy85]

It seems to me that you have a 8.8 TiB used volume, with just 860 GiB still available.
Concerning the question how it filled up, are u sure you don't have snapshots running?

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[jgreco]

It seems obvious that something is storing an enormous amount of data in your dataset1. Make sure there are no Bynars in the area. See if you can figure out what's filling up dataset1.

 

[Jason Brunk]

Enemy85 thank you!! I did have snapshots running. They were set to expire after 2 weeks which probably wouldn't be a problem, but since I have been dumping TONS of my data back on to the nas over the last 2 weeks the snapshots were killing me! I have disabled them since I don't have the replication setup yet and still dumping data on to the system. I have already regained 3tb of space by deleting those snapshots.

 

[Ericloewe]

Make sure there are no Bynars in the area.

They should've taken EMI protection of their vital systems more seriously.

Also, redundant offsite hardware is generally a better fix than trying to commandeer the flagship of the local fleet. Especially when it relies on borderline pornographic entertainment for the ship's first officer.

Maybe if they'd devote more resources to taking care of themselves instead of developing complex AIs for holoporn, they wouldn't be in that mess! Or hell, license the AI for use in holosuite programs, it's pretty much established that every session not involving a recurring character is some sort of sexual program - and then use the profit to throw more redundancy at the problem.

Seriously, it's like every engineer went into full-retard mode, what with every ship and installation having several single-points-of-failure.

/Rant

 

[jgreco]

They should've taken EMI protection of their vital systems more seriously.

Also, redundant offsite hardware is generally a better fix than trying to commandeer the flagship of the local fleet. Especially when it relies on borderline pornographic entertainment for the ship's first officer.

Maybe if they'd devote more resources to taking care of themselves instead of developing complex AIs for holoporn, they wouldn't be in that mess! Or hell, license the AI for use in holosuite programs, it's pretty much established that every session not involving a recurring character is some sort of sexual program - and then use the profit to throw more redundancy at the problem.

Seriously, it's like every engineer went into full-retard mode, what with every ship and installation having several single-points-of-failure.

/Rant

I should have figured you'd get the reference. ;-)

But really, the whole thing that there'd be a race like the Bynars that close to Federation space, trusted to do work on Federation computers, but nobody apparently had any information about their planet, or other stellar phenomena going on in the area, which was apparently only a few hours away from a starbase large enough to do refit work, yeah, it seemed like plot hole city in a concept that could have been developed without the holodeck gal. But that's what we get when Hollywood tries to go techy.

 

[anodos]

They should've taken EMI protection of their vital systems more seriously.

Also, redundant offsite hardware is generally a better fix than trying to commandeer the flagship of the local fleet. Especially when it relies on borderline pornographic entertainment for the ship's first officer.

Maybe if they'd devote more resources to taking care of themselves instead of developing complex AIs for holoporn, they wouldn't be in that mess! Or hell, license the AI for use in holosuite programs, it's pretty much established that every session not involving a recurring character is some sort of sexual program - and then use the profit to throw more redundancy at the problem.

Seriously, it's like every engineer went into full-retard mode, what with every ship and installation having several single-points-of-failure.

/Rant

Meh, sounds about par for the course for small business backup and disaster recovery plans.

 

[Ericloewe]

trusted to do work on Federation computers, but nobody apparently had any information about their planet,

I was going to say that part didn't bug me much, since a bit of social engineering does wonders.
Then I realized they should be socially inept among humans (given the rather different organization of their society) and they pull the whole "wow, such an unknown people" way too often, only to assign them some role requiring trust or do a 180 and make them not a barely-known species (the Ferengi go from unknown to "long reputation and ubiquitous presence" in five seasons, the Trill are introduced as a throwaway barely-known species and everyone knows who and what they are by the time DS9 starts, with Dax having been an ambassador for decades... And I'm surely missing more).


The biggest source of plot goles, however, are the Romulans. It's like everyone forgot there was a Neutral Zone in TNG season 6, with the recurring "Romulan ship is in distress and the Enterprise goes to render assistance" plot. And an invasion fleet made up of three transport ships? They're supposed to take Vulcan with three ships' worth of people? The Normandy beach landings easily had an order of magnitude more people and they weren't taking a whole planet.

And don't get me started on the "race to find DNA episode involving random cheap actors who were never seen again". Do Federation tricorders not have Execute-disable technology? Marking data pages as non-executable is one of the most trivial protection mechanisms there is! And the random DNA magically rewrites the whole OS on the tricorder despite predating it by millions of years and magically gives the tricorder a holographic projector?

*sigh*

Meh, sounds about par for the course for small business backup and disaster recovery plans.

So the federation outsources IT maintenance to LinusTechTips?

 

[danb35]

It's just a show, you should really just relax.

 

[jgreco]

So the federation outsources IT maintenance to LinusTechTips?

Isn't that usually how government works?

 

[jgreco]

It's just a show, you should really just relax.

Relax? It's Star Wars, man!

 

[anodos]

Relax? It's Star Wars, man!

I personally think the way star trek ends with them finding prehistoric earth is pretty lame, but I did like the cylons.

 

[jgreco]

I personally think the way star trek ends with them finding prehistoric earth is pretty lame, but I did like the cylons.

Okay so the Borg running around in the red dress was kinda hot but I don't understand why she killed that baby in the pilot. Besides, B**** Puddin' is hotter.

 

[Dice]

So the federation outsources IT maintenance to LinusTechTips?

Isn't that usually how government works?

These made my day. My week.
HEh, they made up for all the time I've spent watching LinusTechTips xD

 

[jgreco]

We advise against reading all the pithy comments here on the forums. They are known to the State of California to cause loss of brain cells, and eventual insanity.

 

[Ericloewe]

We advise against reading all the pithy comments here on the forums. They are known to the State of California to cause loss of brain cells, and eventual insanity.

I love how California makes companies include the lead solder notice on products with no lead solder...