8.2-p1: Cannot import multiple volumes from a disk

[saurav]

I have a 32-bit freenas 8.0.4 setup on a thumb-drive with 2 disks (details below). Since my hardware is 64-bit and I have 5 GB RAM, I flashed FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x64.img.xz to a new 8GB thumb-drive, and put it in place of my existing 8.0.4 thumb-drive. It booted up fine and I could access the 8.2 GUI, but I couldn't import all my volumes. Once I import any one of the volumes from a disk, the "Import Volume" screen doesn't list the other volumes from that disk. For example, if I import ada1p4, none of ada1p{1,2,3,5} are available in the "Import Volume" screen.

So I'm back to my 32-bit 8.0.4 setup for now.

What did I do wrong? Sorry if this has already been covered, but my search for strings like "cannot import multiple volumes from same disk" in forums and support.freenas.org didn't bring up anything relevant.

My 32-bit freenas 8.0.4 x86 setup details
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FreeNAS Build FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x86 (10351)
Platform AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo N36L Dual-Core Processor
Memory 3443MB
OS Version FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p6

[saurav@freenas] /mnt/home/saurav# gpart show
=> 63 15687567 da0 MBR (7.5G)
63 1930257 1 freebsd [active] (943M)
1930320 63 - free - (32K)
1930383 1930257 2 freebsd (943M)
3860640 3024 3 freebsd (1.5M)
3863664 41328 4 freebsd (20M)
3904992 11782638 - free - (5.6G)

=> 0 1930257 da0s1 BSD (943M)
0 16 - free - (8.0K)
16 1930241 1 !0 (943M)

=> 34 312581741 ada0 GPT (149G)
34 94 - free - (47K)
128 4194304 1 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
4194432 308387343 2 freebsd-ufs (147G)

=> 34 5860533101 ada1 GPT (2.7T)
34 94 - free - (47K)
128 4194304 1 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
4194432 3145728000 2 freebsd-ufs (1.5T)
3149922432 1048576000 3 freebsd-ufs (500G)
4198498432 1048576000 4 freebsd-ufs (500G)
5247074432 613458703 5 freebsd-ufs (293G)

[saurav@freenas] /mnt/home/saurav# glabel status
Name Status Components
ufs/FreeNASs3 N/A da0s3
ufs/FreeNASs4 N/A da0s4
ufs/FreeNASs1a N/A da0s1a
ufsid/4f60e20abb257050 N/A ada1p1
gptid/9c008607-6df0-11e1-8ec5-d485646ab983 N/A ada1p1
ufs/Movies N/A ada1p2
ufs/HomeVideos N/A ada1p3
ufs/Pictures N/A ada1p4
ufs/Music N/A ada1p5
gptid/847e7997-6b5e-11e1-9993-d485646ab983 N/A ada0p1
ufs/home N/A ada0p2

 

[saurav]

Anybody? Or does my question not make any sense at all? FWIW, I have the same problem with 32-bit freenas 8.2-p1 as well.

I looked into /var/log/*, especially /var/log/messages, but didn't find anything relevant (as far as I can tell). I am not at all familiar with freenas or FreeBSD. If more diagnostic information would help understand my case, please let me know what, and how to get it.

Thanks,
Saurav.

 

[ProtoSD]

Your question makes sense to me. Currently I don't think FreeNAS supports importing multiple partitions on the same disk. The best thing you can do is to open a ticket at support.freenas.org. There it's more likely a developer will see your problem and fix it, or tell you another way to do it.

 

[saurav]

I'll open a ticket at support.freenas.org.

Currently I don't think FreeNAS supports importing multiple partitions on the same disk.

Did you mean the 8.2 release? Because 8.0.4 release does let me import multiple partitions, and share them via CIFS. That's how I've been using it since a few months now.

Thanks,
Saurav.

 

[saurav]

Ticket # 1697

https://support.freenas.org/ticket/1697

 

[Kelvin Lee]

I have same problem of you. I just install a 8.2 release, and add 2 3TB hdd in there. I have manual to create 3 zpool volumes, and export them. Then, in the WebGUI, first time, i can show all created volume. After auto import any volume, WebGUI can't list other volume. I had try at 8.0.4 and 8.2.
Any solution here, pls help.

sorry, my english is very poor.

 

[saurav]

I tried the x86 build for freenas 8.2 again last night, and this time I was able to import my volumes. Actually, the volumes were automatically imported once I restored my settings from 8.0.4 to 8.2 and rebooted. I think what I might have missed earlier is saving/restoring the config db, or may be I had restored too old a version of my settings.

Sorry about the false alarm!

Regards,
Saurav.