Moved from FreeNAS 0.7.X to 9.2

[shinseiryu]

(correction: I put 0.9.2 in the subject but actually meant 9.2.1.8)

Hello,

I had a system running an old 0.7.X freenas build and it ran into some problems with the OS drive and/or motherboard/cpu. I managed to get the data off my RAID1 and RAID5 volumes and it is currently sitting on external usb3 hdd.

I have upgraded the hardware in this computer to the following:
Supermicro X10SLL+-F
Intel Xeon E3-1240v3
16GB of Crucial DDR3 ECC (CT2KIT102472BD160B)
8GB HP USB flash drive
4x 3.0TB Western Digital RED

The system boots up fine and ran through a few hours worth of memtextx86 without issue.
As the drives had some remnants of the RAID5 array I had issues getting Freenas to build a new pool using ZFS RAIDZ2. I googled some on it and ended up running this on ada0,ada1,ada2,ada3

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m

After what seems like forever it finally finished and after rebooting I was able to create the RAIDZ2 volume and install 2 plugins. I did a restart of the system (having issues getting these plugins/jails working and wondered if a reboot would help) and after the restart Freenas is giving an alert message "WARNING: The volume RaidZ2 (ZFS) status is UNKNOWN". I have pasted below some output from commands I have found and a small snippet from dmesg that looks odd (RAID5 is still on my drives?) Any help in prepping these drives properly so that I can run RAIDZ2 or whatever is best for a 4x 3.0TB configuration would be appreciated.

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# zpool status                                                
no pools available                                                            
[root@freenas ~]# gpart show ada0                                             
gpart: No such geom: ada0.                                                    
[root@freenas ~]# gpart show ada1                                             
gpart: No such geom: ada1.                                                    
[root@freenas ~]# gpart show ada2                                             
gpart: No such geom: ada2.                                                    
[root@freenas ~]# gpart show ada3                                             
gpart: No such geom: ada3.                                                    
[root@freenas ~]# glabel status                                               
                                      Name  Status  Components                
                             ufs/FreeNASs3     N/A  da0s3                     
                             ufs/FreeNASs4     N/A  da0s4                     
                            ufs/FreeNASs1a     N/A  da0s1a                    
gptid/65a07e07-6346-11e4-8f9e-0025904657eb     N/A  raid5/Raid5p1             
gptid/65b0c9de-6346-11e4-8f9e-0025904657eb     N/A  raid5/Raid5p2             
[root@freenas ~]# graid status
[root@freenas ~]# zpool status                                                
no pools available

Code:

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a [ro]...                     
GEOM_RAID5: Module loaded, version 1.1.20130907.44 (rev 5c6d2a159411)         
GEOM_RAID5: Raid5: device created (stripesize=131072).                        
GEOM_RAID5: Raid5: ada3(2): disk attached.                                    
GEOM_RAID5: Raid5: ada2(1): disk attached.                                    
GEOM_RAID5: Raid5: ada1(0): disk attached.                                    
GEOM_RAID5: Raid5: ada0(3): disk attached.                                    
GEOM_RAID5: Raid5: activated (need about 76MiB kmem (max)).                   
GEOM: raid5/Raid5: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.             
GEOM: raid5/Raid5: using the primary only -- recovery suggested.              
ZFS filesystem version: 5                                                     
ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000)

 

[cyberjock]

There is no FreeNAS 0.9.2... so whatever you think you are looking for, this isn't the place.

But to get rid of the RAID5, you shoudl be able to just zero out the disks with dd and they should be "gone for good" at that point.

 

[danb35]

I'm sure @shinseiryu meant FreeNAS 9.2, not 0.9.2

 

[shinseiryu]

I apologize, this is the actual version I am (attempting) to use:
FreeNAS-9.2.1.8-RELEASE-x64 (e625626)

What confuses me though is I ran this on each drive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m

Would that not have wiped each drive?