Added Drive - how long til system returns

[ShawnT62]

I built up a little system about 3 weeks ago and have been taking on a project a night to move it along and all had been going well until ... I added another hard drive to the pool about 5 hours ago. Since then, GUI has been not response, drive access light is flickering near steadily. I don't remember it taking this long when I built the box originally. How long should I wait (I already did a power cycle mistakenly thinking it had locked up).

System Spec, Pentium, 8 GB Memory, H97 itx motherboard, 2X4TB, 1X3TB on board sata, 2X4, 1X3TB in usb enclosure. 2X4 are waiting to go in, 3TB is what I added that sent it into limbo land.

If I TTY in, I can get login prompt, followed by password prompt but then nothing after I enter password.

Drive's are in striped mode if that comes into play.

Someone tell me "Don't panic" please

 

[dlavigne]

Well, one should always panic when there is no redundancy unless their data is throw-away... Which version of FreeNAS and is the stripe UFS or ZFS?

 

[ShawnT62]

9.3 nightlies and ZFS.

I do still have all the original files on my WHS but would be disappointing to lose all I accomplished to this point. Also, want to know how to fix so 6 months from now when this happens I am not losing everything

 

[dlavigne]

Post the output of zpool status.

 

[gpsguy]

Since you still have your data on WHS, I'd suggest you start over and do things correctly.

Read cyberjock's guide - https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

Look at our stickies on hardware recommendations - note: a H97 itx isn't recommended for various reasons

Read the manual

Creating a striped pool that includes USB drives is an accident waiting to happen. You probably won't need to wait 6 months before you lose all your data.

Since you plan to include 4TB drives, RAIDz2 is highly recommended.

 

[ShawnT62]

[root@freenas ~]# zpool status
pool: freenas-boot
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Thu Mar 12 22:21:51 2015
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
freenas-boot ONLINE 0 0 0
ada1p2 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

I think I am toast - because the USB takes time to come online, in the boot process it tells me my vol is destroyed (paraphrased) and restore from back up. As you see above, the main pool has disappear and the ada1p2 is the USB drive that comes online about 30 secs after I see the main menu

 

[ShawnT62]

Since you still have your data on WHS, I'd suggest you start over and do things correctly.

Read cyberjock's guide - https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

Look at our stickies on hardware recommendations - note: a H97 itx isn't recommended for various reasons

Read the manual


Creating a striped pool that includes USB drives is an accident waiting to happen. You probably won't need to wait 6 months before you lose all your data.

Since you plan to include 4TB drives, RAIDz2 is highly recommended.

Thanks GPSGuy, I appreciate that advice. My nature is to jump in the deep end and then learn how to swim (it actually calms me when I get victories) and I like to learn this way (hence the complete back up as I have definitely learned that lesson over the years).

As I said,in my other message, I do think I am toast and will be restarting from thumb drive and I will definetly be setting up drives better. 3X4tb in one volume, 3X3TB in another volume (8 TB & 6TB) and then will set critical files (family photos) to be stored on both volumes.

I did like the mdisk management in WHS with ease of expansion plus build in duplication, never got myself in trouble.

 

[Bidule0hm]

Why not a 6 drives RAID-Z2 volume instead of two 3 drives RAID-Z1 ? yes you lose 1 TB on the 4 TB drives but the reliability will be far better (by three orders of magnitude...) and you don't need to duplicate your data so you have more space effectively ;)

 

[ShawnT62]

Just to bring closure to my insanity, it turns out that the 3TB drive that I had added into the 3X4TB pool had decided it was end of life which caused the challenge. I have rebuilt presently with 4TB in a RaidZ configuration and got my data and effort back to point of problem occuring. Not bad, 3 days to do this time what took 3 weeks the first time :)

Thanks for all the assistance appreciated

 

[cyberjock]

9.3 nightlies and ZFS.

I do still have all the original files on my WHS but would be disappointing to lose all I accomplished to this point. Also, want to know how to fix so 6 months from now when this happens I am not losing everything

Well:

1. Use proper hardware.
2. Don't do nightlies
3. Don't add single disks. You'll lose redundancy.

Sure sounds like you haven't done proper reading and in 6 months (or maybe even less) you'll be back because you lost your data again.

Anyone want to bet against me on this? ;)