The boot volume state is DEGRADED

[Magnus33]

Got this warning and since all the hard drives are showing as healthy i am guessing the usb drive is crapping out?

Correct guess or am i missing something here?

 

[Bidule0hm]

Yes, it's the system drive ;)

 

[danb35]

The boot volume would be the USB in a normal installation, not any of the storage drives. Do you have a mirror set up for your boot device? If so, easy to replace the defective drive and resilver. If not, download config database, get a new USB, do a clean install to it, upload the config database.

 

[Magnus33]

Unfortunately forgot to mirror it ..cough cough whoops.

Upside i routinely backup the config so its no great hardship.

Man i go through usb like crazy.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Are you using good ones? I have been using the Dane SanDisk cruzer fit for almost 2 years now without fail.

 

[Magnus33]

Yeah i do.

Problem is i got hemochromatosis which means i absorb iron much better then the normal person.
I touch floopies they erase and apparently i mess up usb if i touch them too often.

Magnetic personalty and all that..lol

 

[madik]

I got the same issue today with a degraded Boot drive. I dont have a mirror of course so only option is do a Freenas fresh intall? I will definitelly do the mirror next time. Unfortunatelly I had no idea that you can mirror the USB boot drive

 

[Magnus33]

I got the same issue today with a degraded Boot drive. I dont have a mirror of course so only option is do a Freenas fresh intall? I will definitelly do the mirror next time. Unfortunatelly I had no idea that you can mirror the USB boot drive

Its not the usb itself i got it again today and its with a fresh usb so i think somethings off with the latest updates giving us a false error.

 

[madik]

Its not the usb itself i got it again today and its with a fresh usb so i think somethings off with the latest updates giving us a false error.

Yeah I feel much safer now. At least its just a boot drive. Its not an end of the world you know. Gonna check the forum and the error reporting thingy for more clues. I dont really wanna reinstall because its too much hasle for me. Not sure if the plugins will be working after loading the config etc.

 

[Magnus33]

There no possible way that the same error would pop up on a fresh usb a day after so something else besides bad hardware is the issue here

The mirror is also showing the same issue which is about as likely as me winning the a lato so i wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[sef]

Your first sentence is dangerously incorrect -- it is entirely possible for multiple drives to be bad, and it is certainly possible for them to go bad within a day.

 

[Magnus33]

Your first sentence is dangerously incorrect -- it is entirely possible for multiple drives to be bad, and it is certainly possible for them to go bad within a day.

Hard-drives yes its entirely possible for this to happen.
For usb drives two of which are brand new and weren't plugged into the nas before its extremely unlikely.

When others start reporting the same error suddenly likely hood drops even further.

 

[ser_rhaegar]

Hard-drives yes its entirely possible for this to happen.
For usb drives two of which are brand new and weren't plugged into the nas before its extremely unlikely.

When others start reporting the same error suddenly likely hood drops even further.

I have a couple in my desk that died within an hour of each other new. Waiting on RMAs from Lacie. Unlikely, sure. Possible, definitely.

 

[Magnus33]

Harddirves never seem to want to die alone.

 

[madik]

I got this in a report. How many checksum errors have you got Magnus33 ?

scan: scrub repaired 4K in 0h15m with 62 errors on Wed Apr 1 04:00:53 2015
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
freenas-boot DEGRADED 0 0 62
da0p2 DEGRADED 0 0 128 too many errors

 

[Magnus33]

None.

When i started mirroring the boot usb the errors suddenly went away.
Something wrong here but i don't think its a actually errors but something causing misreporting.

 

[Grinas]

If you have mirrored boot device.

How can you tell which USB drive is actually gone. I know with HDD you use the serial number but i cant figure out which USB is gone.

 

[Magnus33]

Simple enough although with the old UI its understandable that its confusing to find.

Log in and you can ignore both the menus on the top and bottom as you already in the area you need to be.
Click on boot which can bee seen in the already opened system area in the middle of the screen
Then in the submenu this opens up click status which should show up just under the boot you just selected.

This will give you a idea which is having issue so you can take it out and scan it for errors or merely replace it.


I would if you can get a cheap small ssd as usb's tend to burn out too quick not to mention are just plain slow.

 

[Grinas]

Simple enough although with the old UI its understandable that its confusing to find.

Log in and you can ignore both the menus on the top and bottom as you already in the area you need to be.
Click on boot which can bee seen in the already opened system area in the middle of the screen
Then in the submenu this opens up click status which should show up just under the boot you just selected.

This will give you a idea which is having issue so you can take it out and scan it for errors or merely replace it.


I would if you can get a cheap small ssd as usb's tend to burn out too quick not to mention are just plain slow.

Thanks ill look into this when i get home

I would loose a sata port if i used a SSD. The usb drives im using have 130MB read and write so arent slow, regardless i dont think fast drives are needed as i see no performance increase other than faster boot time since i replaced my 10MB r/w drives with the 130MB w/r drives.

 

[Stux]

If you have mirrored boot device.

How can you tell which USB drive is actually gone. I know with HDD you use the serial number but i cant figure out which USB is gone.

My Cruzer Fits have an activity light. I run a dd off the good one to /dev/null. The one that lights up is the one I dd'd.