FreeNAS SPA_Sync at reboot

[Soloam]

Problem solved, one dead drive, the "trash" one... no problem :).

Is this a normal behavior? On boot it stucks if a drive is dead? The system only booted when I removed the hdd.

Thank you all for your help :)

 

[Ericloewe]

It's not particularly normal, but failing disks tend to bring out the worst of any system.

 

[Soloam]

No harm done... The system is back online and for now I can sleep peaceful!

Thank you all

 

[Fongaboo]

No harm done... The system is back online and for now I can sleep peaceful!

Thank you all

Which was the drive you removed? The boot drive? Or one of the drives in your storage pool?

If it was boot, was it about USB stick? If it was in your storage pool, how did you know which one to pull?

Did you replace the drive before next boot?

 

[Soloam]

It was one of the storage! First I unplugged all the drives and started the system, the system booted, so it was not a problem in the boot drive! Then I did that to the other drives... Until it did not boot and found my bad drive! Not the most technical way, but it worked!

 

[Fongaboo]

It was one of the storage! First I unplugged all the drives and started the system, the system booted, so it was not a problem in the boot drive! Then I did that to the other drives... Until it did not boot and found my bad drive! Not the most technical way, but it worked!

Just want to be absolutely clear.. You...

1. shut down before spa_sync completed
2. pulled a drive
3. booted up
4. when you saw spa_sync again you shut down again
5. put the pulled drive back
   
6. you repeated steps 2-5 until it did not go into spa_sync and fully booted running off calculated parity

 

[Soloam]

I was lucky because the drive that was failing was not a part of a pool! It was a trash drive that only had trash inside for tests! But yes that was my procedure! When the system stopped booting I knew that I found the bad drive! But please don't take my word as 100% secure, for sure there is better ways to solve this!

 

[Fongaboo]

I was lucky because the drive that was failing was not a part of a pool! It was a trash drive that only had trash inside for tests! But yes that was my procedure! When the system stopped booting I knew that I found the bad drive! But please don't take my word as 100% secure, for sure there is better ways to solve this!

Werd. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!