[PLUG] FreeNAS can't read a sector...

Michael Christopher Robinson michael at robinson-west.com
Sat Jun 17 03:33:22 UTC 2017


Got my FreeNAS 9-10-U4 system back up.  Found out that a small 500G
hard drive had failed.  It wasn't used by any of the ZFS pools at all.
Why does FreeNAS shut down when a single drive fails on a sector 
access even if that drive isn't part of any ZFS pool?

How can I check to see if my two 4 TB drives are properly mirroring
each other and not in linear append mode?  I have a single 2 tb drive,
maybe I should replace it with two 4 tb drives for a second data set.

My concern, the 2 TB WD green drive is old.  I'm thinking two 4TB WD
Reds.

Does anyone know if FreeNAS has a plugin that can back up Windows 10
systems incrementally?  Preferably, something that can back up Linux
systems as well.  MyPCbackup doesn't work, dad wants a reliable local
area solution.  I figure a commercial FreeNAS box dedicated to him
might be appropriate.  He should be able to mirror to a NAS box
elsewhere at another location for additional protection.

If I can get FreeNAS to be more reliable, need to make sure that smart
testing is on and running frequently enough...  I'm upgrading to
FreeNAS 11 right now, the release candidate finally came out.

Please check out http://www.freenas.org if you don't know what FreeNAS
is.

Well, PLEX will be up again once the upgrade to FreeNAS 11 is complete.



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