crusader27529
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- Nov 27, 2019
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First of all, here's my HW setup.....
I'm running on a SuperMicro X7-DBU in a 2U SuperMicro SC-825 chassis. The MB has dual 8-core processors, and 32GB of ECC memory.
I have an LSI 9211-8i HBA set to IT mode, am booting from a 16GB PNY USB memory stick, and
have 6 drives connected to the HBA, along with 2 drives attached to the internal ports
on the MB. Those 2 drives will eventually be mirrored boot drives.
So, here's the history....I originally had been running on 9.3 on an old Dell box, and after it died, I moved the 3 drives I had at that time
to an external enclosure with a USB interface, attached to a laptop with 8GB of RAM. I know that it's far
from an optimal system, but it's what I had. The performance sucked, but it functioned
as a NAS just fine for my personal use. Along the way, I updated all the drives to
give me a RaidZ1 with 3 2TB drives. It all worked fine, except for the performance.
I was able to acquire the SuperMicro server at a good price, and decided to move to the faster box, and then update to something more current. The
transition to the new server went smoothly, as all I had to do was boot from the old USB stick.
I've never been able to update with the 9.3 server for some reason, so I decided to
re-install using boot media to 11.2u6 or u7(I don't remember), but that was a complkete disaster.
The install process NEVER comp[leteed, and continually would reboot the server while
updating at various point, never with an obvious pattern. I tried everything that I could think of, but no success.
At this time, I was able to find a copy of the install media for 9.10, and that worked fine. I added some drive and
was functional. I didn't change anything, but just added some vdevs and played with snapshots, plus
mounter the system drive to a spinning disk so as not to write too much to a USB stick.
So, after a while, I kept getting notifications that there were updates, so I dumped a backup to an external drive, and tried an update. It originally showed the 9.10
train, so I tried that, and I've no idea what actually was accomplished. I eventually
selected the 11.2 stable train, and did the update. The result was again notb what I wanted.
The system booted, but threw MANY errors, which I had no way of recording, and
eventually hung during the boot. I'm not sure how long I waited, but it was at least 10 minutes
for the process to continue, but it didn't. I rebooted, and selected the 9.10 version, and it
rebooted, threw the same errors(more or less), but only hung for about 45 seconds, then it continued, successfully,
and the sysrem was operational. I think I tried to reboot 11.2 at least another time before giving up and
going back to 9.10.
I'm not very good with BSD or Linux, so I waited until the daily freenas security
output was emailed to me, and it has the majority of the errors included. I
can append the 'real' error list if I knew how, but for now here's the contect of the email. I sure woulkd like some
direction........
I think this is from the last 9.10 boot, as the 11.2 boot seemed to say something about the retry count was exhausted, and then hung.
Because of the limit in size of this email, I'll try to split it into pieces.....it's easier to attach the text file.
Thanks in advance.
I'm running on a SuperMicro X7-DBU in a 2U SuperMicro SC-825 chassis. The MB has dual 8-core processors, and 32GB of ECC memory.
I have an LSI 9211-8i HBA set to IT mode, am booting from a 16GB PNY USB memory stick, and
have 6 drives connected to the HBA, along with 2 drives attached to the internal ports
on the MB. Those 2 drives will eventually be mirrored boot drives.
So, here's the history....I originally had been running on 9.3 on an old Dell box, and after it died, I moved the 3 drives I had at that time
to an external enclosure with a USB interface, attached to a laptop with 8GB of RAM. I know that it's far
from an optimal system, but it's what I had. The performance sucked, but it functioned
as a NAS just fine for my personal use. Along the way, I updated all the drives to
give me a RaidZ1 with 3 2TB drives. It all worked fine, except for the performance.
I was able to acquire the SuperMicro server at a good price, and decided to move to the faster box, and then update to something more current. The
transition to the new server went smoothly, as all I had to do was boot from the old USB stick.
I've never been able to update with the 9.3 server for some reason, so I decided to
re-install using boot media to 11.2u6 or u7(I don't remember), but that was a complkete disaster.
The install process NEVER comp[leteed, and continually would reboot the server while
updating at various point, never with an obvious pattern. I tried everything that I could think of, but no success.
At this time, I was able to find a copy of the install media for 9.10, and that worked fine. I added some drive and
was functional. I didn't change anything, but just added some vdevs and played with snapshots, plus
mounter the system drive to a spinning disk so as not to write too much to a USB stick.
So, after a while, I kept getting notifications that there were updates, so I dumped a backup to an external drive, and tried an update. It originally showed the 9.10
train, so I tried that, and I've no idea what actually was accomplished. I eventually
selected the 11.2 stable train, and did the update. The result was again notb what I wanted.
The system booted, but threw MANY errors, which I had no way of recording, and
eventually hung during the boot. I'm not sure how long I waited, but it was at least 10 minutes
for the process to continue, but it didn't. I rebooted, and selected the 9.10 version, and it
rebooted, threw the same errors(more or less), but only hung for about 45 seconds, then it continued, successfully,
and the sysrem was operational. I think I tried to reboot 11.2 at least another time before giving up and
going back to 9.10.
I'm not very good with BSD or Linux, so I waited until the daily freenas security
output was emailed to me, and it has the majority of the errors included. I
can append the 'real' error list if I knew how, but for now here's the contect of the email. I sure woulkd like some
direction........
I think this is from the last 9.10 boot, as the 11.2 boot seemed to say something about the retry count was exhausted, and then hung.
Because of the limit in size of this email, I'll try to split it into pieces.....it's easier to attach the text file.
Thanks in advance.