My Box is Hosed?

[CoastalControl]

Hello forum people....
I have had a FreeNAS box for the past two years that I made out of my fathers old Dell Pentium D.
It does not have that much ram (4-Gig), but has been functioning flawlessly through all of the upgrades that have come out.

Last week I had created (experimenting) with the SCSI disk share out of the NAS box. I had created a share and was using it with my MacBook Pro, moving files and such. Everything worked great!
I thought, this is neat!
Then, without reading anything, (recently), I decided to make A periodic snapshot of a given ZFS Volume/Dataset which is required to create a replication task. Which I wanted to do. So, I set up a "periodic snapshot task" for the two pools I have had all these years.
I have had some issues in the past with ZFS, but after reading different articles on this forum, I have somehow (with your help) repaired all of that stuff. I do realize that this place has ALL the answers so I am requesting a little help as to what I need to do next. I am not that "versed" in many of these ZFS drive issues, but I thought I would ask the question anyway. Here is what I have....

When I was using the ISCSI drive that I had attached to my MacBook Pro from my FreeNAS server (9.2.1) I realized that the Server has stopped. When I went into the house to fire up the monitor connected to the FreeNAS server, I saw this.. and some other stuff.

$ Cannot open Volume1:pool I/O is cuurently ssuspended usage: Snapshot| snap [-r] [-o property=value] <filesystem|volume>@snap>
$ For property List, run zfs set|get
$ For the delegated permission List, RUN: zfs allow|unallow

There were some other things, I I would like to get the Log, but I do not know how. If you could give me the commands, if I can get into the server , I can get this out and post if here, maybe that would help much more.
I appreciate any help at this juncture...

Thanks, Pat

By the way, I think I was listening to Music from one of the pools when the "snapshot" creation began, I'm not sure. I had totally forgot that I had scheduled this backup at 1:30AM and I just happened to be up and playing with my PC's. When I should have been sleeping. I was not doing anything to the server, but connected to it with my Mac. I was not sending or receiving files as far as I can remember...

 

[cyberjock]

Well, for starters read the manual.. the hardware requirements.. and you'll see you are not meeting the minimum requirements.

 

[CoastalControl]

Well, for starters read the manual.. the hardware requirements.. and you'll see you are not meeting the minimum requirements.

Thank you, The system had been operating so long without any issues, when it would boot, it would recognize that the memory was not sufficient and appeared to compensate for that issue. Anyway, thank your for responding. Any, other suggestions besides read? I have been doing that for a long time. Maybe my comprehension is not very good.

Thanks,
Pat

 

[cyberjock]

To be honest(and blunt) I don't even read posts after I see a lack of meeting the 8GB minimum. There's so many random problems that can come and go and so many wild goose chases I've been on because of the minimum being ignored I don't even both spending my time on it anymore. It's one of those things where you take your own risk when you ignore the minimums. And experience has shown me that I should spend as little time as possible troubleshooting problems of any kind when the minimum isn't met. It more often than not turns into a situation where person X wanted to save $ and I ended up paying for it with my own time spent chasing an issue created by their own penny-pinching ideas.

 

[CoastalControl]

Thank you, CyberJock,

I appreciate what you are saying. As for this system, when I began to build the FreeNAS, the things I read were probably not correct, but it did function very well for two years. That says a lot about FreeNAS. It is a good server for many things. I have since built a box utilizes ESXi 5.5. I have some spare parts left from that build and am probably going to build the FreeNAS back up with the proper hardware and have a go at it again.

Thank you for your comments, cyberjock. This is the first time to have asked anything on this forum, but I have read many articles by you and your guide which by the was is GREAT for anyone. That took time.... I have also laughed out loud when reading some of your replies to some people. It is quit entertaining to read some of these answers that you give.

Thank you!

Pat

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah.. I'm not going to win awards for being politically correct and diplomatic. But, I try to either provide the answer or point you to the answer if I have antything to provide. No free lunches here for most people... which makes quite a few people angry. ;)

Glad my guide and articles have helped.

Upgrade your system to 8GB and see if the problem continues.. if it does, the post back and we can dig deeper.

Just a word of warning in case you don't know.. Pentium-Ds don't support ECC, so you are already playing with fire with regards to ZFS.

 

[CoastalControl]

Yea, I'm a goin to replace the cpu, mobo, ram, other stuff. What about the cpu to use. My mobo is 1155. Suggestions? Not sooooo expensive...

I just powered on that machine a few moments ago and it has the same issue. It is now scrolling a bunch of stuff about each hard disk. I don't know, but I really think it might be the Roswell 622 Controller Card that is hosed. I will rummage through some stuff and see if I have another one.. I will let you know. I will still build another box to replace this one though.

Thanks again, CyberJock!

 

[cyberjock]

The common config many use is the X10SLL+-F by Supermicro and the G3220 CPU. The CPU is about $70 and is an amazing CPU unless you want to do things like Transcoding with the Plex plugin or do encryption(no AES-NI support for the Pentium line). That motherboard and CPU can be bought for less than $250 as a set.

 

[CoastalControl]

Kick Butt! That's the one I'll get!

Thanks for the heads up. Again, thank you...