FreeNAS crash, stuck on Auto Import Volume

[statik]

Was watching a show on my FreeNAS using Plex, finished the show went to get another then nothing would load. Tried to web into my FreeNAS to see if anything was wrong and was not able to, link to FreeNAS and Plex down. I checked my KVM attached to my FreeNAS and it was stuck in db>, so I did a reboot and it went back in to db>. Friend and from reading was instructed to shut down and reload FreeNAS (9.1.1 same version) on the thumb drive. Booted up into new load of FreeNAS on thumb drive fine. Now back into FreeNAS and of course my ZFS volume is not attached and all my configs are reset, as expected. From console I did a Camcontrol devlist (all drives look good), gpart show (looks good), glabel status (looks good), and then zpool import and my existing volume named Volume01 shows. So, I from the FreeNAS gui I ran the Auto Import Volume (Volume01 showed up and its not encrypted) yesterday and after 24 hours the little window with the scrolling blue stripe bar is still going. My friend said it should only take like an hour. So now we are tying to figure out what's going on. I X'ed out of that window and reboot, watched the bootup from my KVM and didn't see any errors and it bootup fine. I tried the Auto Import Volume again, and now its doing its thinking with the scrolling bar, it has been about an hour now.

Please help, I have about 3.5tb of video.

 

[statik]

Ran Zpool Import Volume01 from shell from gui and its thinking, and have another gui window open and see this below, looks like its doing something, wasn't like this when i did the auto import volume.
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
3149 root 2 20 0 114M 26280K select 1 0:02 3.56% python2.7
2415 root 6 21 0 354M 111M usem 0 0:04 0.78% python2.7
3328 root 1 20 0 37564K 3452K zio->i 2 0:00 0.20% zpool
2985 root 1 52 0 147M 52092K ttyin 2 0:01 0.00% python2.7
2490 www 1 20 0 26024K 5400K kqread 0 0:00 0.00% nginx
2546 root 7 20 0 122M 9972K uwait 2 0:00 0.00% collectd
2143 root 1 20 0 22212K 3848K select 2 0:00 0.00% ntpd
3157 root 1 20 0 12284K 2960K wait 0 0:00 0.00% bash
1933 root 1 20 0 12032K 1732K select 2 0:00 0.00% syslogd
2875 root 1 20 0 14124K 1844K select 2 0:00 0.00% rpcbind
2596 root 1 52 0 14124K 1796K nanslp 3 0:00 0.00% cron
3330 root 1 20 0 16552K 2300K CPU2 2 0:00 0.00% top
2990 root 1 52 0 12040K 1608K ttyin 2 0:00 0.00% getty
2986 root 1 52 0 12040K 1608K ttyin 0 0:00 0.00% getty
2991 root 1 52 0 12040K 1608K ttyin 3 0:00 0.00% getty
2992 root 1 52 0 12040K 1608K ttyin 3 0:00 0.00% getty
2988 root 1 52 0 12040K 1608K ttyin 2 0:00 0.00% getty
2987 root 1 52 0 12040K 1608K ttyin 2 0:00 0.00% getty

 

[statik]

Maybe I should have paid and gone with UnRaid, at least I know I would get some support...

come on, no one can help me? this is driving me mad lol

 

[titan_rw]

If you want guaranteed support, you should look at a paid product. iX systems will gladly sell you a nas solution, either FreeNAS, or TrueNAS that they'll provide official support for. This forum is run by volunteers. You're complaining you haven't gotten a response from volunteers in the 2 hours between your initial post and your last post? But if UnRaid is going to work out for you better than FreeNAS, by all means give it a go. FreeNAS isn't for everyone.

I'll tell you why I wasn't going to respond. For one, you haven't followed forum rules and posted hardware info, etc. See the stickies.

Also your first post is one huge paragraph that I still find hard to read / follow even after forcing myself to read it. Your second post is also hard to interpret without [ code ] blocks to format the post. Even the first sentence is hard to read. If you don't want to follow the rules and include all relevant information, or take the time to make things legible and easy to read, I can't be bothered to read it.

If other people respond, you'll probably want to actually include the output of the commands you mention above, and specs on your freenas server, etc. And probably which options you've enabled on the zpool, specifically whether deduplication has ever been used.

 

[statik]

Geez... lol guess you didn't see the humor in my last post.

and yeah I was hoping for someone competent enough to respond, my bad! I think I explained things pretty good for someone that knew what I was talking about since I didn't go in such detail. I can see the grammar being a little off.. but seriously it's not that hard to understand what i am saying, i kept it very simple.

So from what I have read on forums so far, it looks like i need to use another product like Solaris to recover my zpool. This guy actually had the exact same error I originally hard when this all started http://yuriy-netesov.livejournal.com/697.html

 

[cyberjock]

Do NOT assume that because you had the same error that the same commands will save your data. More often than not the server admin makes things worse(and often unrecoverable).

 

[statik]

How can I determine if my pool is damaged? The only slight progress I thought I made was when I ran Zpool Import Volume01 -f, and my console scrolled really fast for like 10 seconds and then reboot. Nothing showed up after the reboot. Then I tried it with the -F and the same things happened and after the reboot again nothing showed up.

 

[cyberjock]

We did some PMing and he has bad non-ECC RAM. He tried to reuse old parts and it hasn't worked out so well. He's going to RMA his RAM and rebuild his pool. :(

 

[statik]

I am looking for 4x 8gb = 32gb of ECC memory, can someone point me in the right direction? I am looking on Newegg now, but am having problems finding ECC memory.

 

[cyberjock]

What CPU and motherboard do you have? You have to have compatible hardware for ECC to work...

 

[cyberjock]

I have http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239371. ECC RAM is listed under "server memory".

 

[statik]

I wasn't looking in the server memory section of newegg. but this is what i have:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4192#sp
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078

 

[cyberjock]

You can't use ECC RAM with that motherboard. You must have a server chipset(aka a server motherboard) to use ECC.

Your CPU, I believe, will support ECC if you put it in a server board. http://ark.intel.com/products/53422/ doesn't say either way, but I'm 99% sure it will work.

 

[cyberjock]

Normally I'd recommend http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c202_c204/x9scm-f.cfm. That board has everything you want and nothing you don't. And you won't find a better board for less anywhere. Dual Intel Gb LAN, no audio card to sip power 24x7, etc. That's the board I use.

 

[statik]

Just to confirm these will work together right?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182252
http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm

with

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078

 

[statik]

And my LSI SAS 9201-16i Host Bus Adapter will fit!

 

[cyberjock]

Looks like it will work.

Any reason you are going for the X9SCL instead of the board I recommended? It's literally $5 more after shipping and you get an extra PCIe slot and SATA3 ports. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

 

[statik]

Oops, your right, wasn't paying 100% attention. thanks

now im looking for memory.

 

[cyberjock]

And my LSI SAS 9201-16i Host Bus Adapter will fit!

Have you verified that SMART testing and monitoring both work with that controller?

 

[statik]

no... not sure, but I am pretty sure SMART was working when my FreeNAS was up. It is a popular controller that I found suggested on forums when I was originally putting my freenas together.