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Post by quick on Nov 11, 2006 20:59:00 GMT 7
Hi.... I have started playing with my box (N5200). Put in 3 big disks in a RAID-5 config. Then started to copy files into a share/folder. My files are all 1-2 KB. When I had put 150-200GB of these files onto the box it locked up. A reset just gives me a loop * booting * selftest * assembling raid * then it starts over with the booting.... It responds to ping. But the web-interface is not giving any respons. I wonder if this could be an inode-issue. All my small files could have consumed all the inodes. But it shouldnt fail like this, should it Anyone seen something like this. My firmeware is 1.00.03 -------- Quick
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Post by kevincheng on Nov 11, 2006 21:13:02 GMT 7
Hi.... I have started playing with my box (N5200). Put in 3 big disks in a RAID-5 config. Then started to copy files into a share/folder. My files are all 1-2 KB. When I had put 150-200GB of these files onto the box it locked up. A reset just gives me a loop * booting * selftest * assembling raid * then it starts over with the booting.... It responds to ping. But the web-interface is not giving any respons. I wonder if this could be an inode-issue. All my small files could have consumed all the inodes. But it shouldnt fail like this, should it Anyone seen something like this. My firmeware is 1.00.03 -------- Quick - Do you have use snapshot ? (in start if you have reserve snapshot percentage.) - try to upgrade to new firmware 1.00.04.9
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Post by quick on Nov 11, 2006 21:23:39 GMT 7
Hi...
I have now tried the 1.00.04.9.
1) Shutdown 2) pull the disks 3) power on 4) upgrade firmware 5) power down 6) insert disks (same order) 7) power on, same loop
I have not used snapshot.
If I start with the disks out, then it starts correctly and the admin-interface is possible to use.
Putting the disks back in, I get the loop again (boot,selftest,assembling-raid,boot....)
(((I'm starting to believe my raid is "lost" now...)))
------- Quick
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Post by kevincheng on Nov 11, 2006 22:44:30 GMT 7
Putting the disks back in, I get the loop again (boot,selftest,assembling-raid,boot....) How long time between assembling-raid and last boot ?
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Post by quick on Nov 12, 2006 0:30:33 GMT 7
The boot and self-test elapsed time was quite normal. Then it was stuck on the Assembling Raid for 3-4 minuttes. Whole loop took around 5 minuttes. But I didn't use a stopwatch so its not precise timings. I have given up on my data Quite an efficient way of cleaning up your machines... Im in the process of testing small files again to see if it fails again. This time with dummy-data which doesn't matter if I loose.
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Post by kevincheng on Nov 12, 2006 1:02:02 GMT 7
The boot and self-test elapsed time was quite normal. Then it was stuck on the Assembling Raid for 3-4 minuttes. Whole loop took around 5 minuttes. But I didn't use a stopwatch so its not precise timings. I have given up on my data Quite an efficient way of cleaning up your machines... Im in the process of testing small files again to see if it fails again. This time with dummy-data which doesn't matter if I loose. In thecus system ,its' block size=4kB and inode = 8kB/inode so, I think if your small file more than inode size ,maybe some wrong will happen!!
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Post by mango on Nov 12, 2006 7:07:44 GMT 7
I have experience exactly the same problem. Reboot, Assemble Raid, Reboot, in an infite loop. The web admin doesn't respond etc. Well, my machine rebooted (see my other threads about this problem) in the middle of a write. The RAID is lost. :-(
I've had my N5200 for a month now, and I have had so much problem that I have lost all my faith in the product as well as TheCus that I'm going to return it to my reseller.
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Post by quick on Nov 13, 2006 0:10:36 GMT 7
An update....
My boxes are still transfering my small files to the N5200.
I cant say I am sure it didn't cause my problems, but I start to believe something else was causing it.
I will transfere a few more days and see what happens. It takes time to fill 1.5TB with small files....
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