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I also want larger drives, no problem, but I'm no wealhty man. I have the hardware that I have now. So with V6, I will need to go 'old style': 2 NAS servers and 1 VM host machine. Just what I don't wanted. And I'm not the only one with a fully loaded Pro server. Why would people buy these otherwise?? Just as well buy 2 or 3 plus licenses and use ESXi if you are that worried about parity...

It would have been nice if Pro users not only got a price increase, but also some (even if only out of the array) increased device limit... I have now very limited use of all the new features, so much for paying pro prices... Are you complaining about the added features because you already have a Pro license or about to buy one? I think it's a really fair price increase considering all the features tacked on to it; and I think the market for people whom only need NAS functionality without docker/KVM is actually shrinking as users are learning how to use virtualization/partitioning and making use of it, than maintaining a separate VM server. Even NAS producers are getting into this game too, just check out Synology and their 'apps'. I have 3 Pro licences. I have 2 fully loaded pro servers (norco 4224 cases). 1 uses ESXi for VM's and other stuff (unraid in passthrough), the other is not VT-D capable. I wanted to use the second one for some extra VM's and dockers (you know, the new features...). Now it appears this is not at all possible because I can add only 1 extra drive (if I would not use a cache drive...). I don't want any extra (protected) array drives, but 4-6 extra non array drives for dockers/VM's would have been nice. This is getting frustrating because the absolute silence from LT, I send him a email about this (you know, the sticky about concerns/complaints second from the top in this subforum) , but I recieved no answer. So again, what extra features do I get with the new V6, a serious bill to buy new hardware... And in the end I still will be able to have extra VM's when I passthrouggh unraid. So I don't understand why LT wants to annoy/irritatie its pro users. I just don't understand it, but this is probably only me...

It would have been nice if Pro users not only got a price increase, but also some (even if only out of the array) increased device limit... I have now very limited use of all the new features, so much for paying pro prices...

Works at the moment with one small problem, I can not yet specify the IP address, it's an IP from the 'free' IP address range on the DHCP server. Needed: - docker-network-container : https://github.com/jeroenpeeters/docker-network-containers - pipework : https://github.com/jpetazzo/pipework/blob/master/pipework - dhclient - public interface needs to be in promiscuous mode This not yet automated, you need to log in the unraid server through ssh. Get the needed scripts and store them somewhere on the USB drive: # cd /boot # mkdir Ext_ip_Docker # cd Ext_ip_Docker # wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeroenpeeters/docker-network-containers/master/create-network-container.sh # wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeroenpeeters/docker-network-containers/master/remove-network-container.sh # wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpetazzo/pipework/master/pipework # chmod +x create-network-container.sh remove-network-container.sh Pipework needs to be installed in /opt/bin, we use a link # cd / # mkdir opt # cd opt # mkdir bin # cd bin # ln -s /boot/Ext_ip_Docker/pipework # chmod +x /opt/bin/pipework Dhclient is needed by these scripts, we have on slackware only dhcpcd # ln -s /sbin/dhcpcd /sbin/dhclient Check if our external facing interface is in promiscuous mode # ifconfig >br0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 10.87.51.78 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.87.51.255 > ether 0c:c4:7a:05:46:5e txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) > RX packets 1970040 bytes 181818101 (173.3 MiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 4099 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 4386356 bytes 462429946 (441.0 MiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 (br0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500) needs to contain PROMISC, if not do a # ip link set dev br0 promisc on br0 is the correct interface because it has the IP address we use to connect to the server (in my case 10.87.51.78) Now we need the name of the container that needs its own IP, in my case a SABnzbd container # docker ps >CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES >36665c5a45b6 needo/sabnzbd:latest "/sbin/my_init" 3 weeks ago Up 12 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp SABnzbd Name = SABnzbd ; interface = br0 : lets create the network container # /boot/Ext_ip_Docker/create-network-container.sh SABnzbd br0 >creating iptables route for port 8080 >Unable to find image 'jeroenpeeters/public-networking:latest' locally >Pulling repository jeroenpeeters/public-networking >cb60650ca7e4: Pulling image (latest) from jeroenpeeters/public-networking >cb60650ca7e4: Pulling image (latest) from jeroenpeeters/public-networking, endpoint: https://registry-1.docker.io/v1/ >cb60650ca7e4: Pulling dependent layers >511136ea3c5a: Download complete >5b12ef8fd570: Pulling metadata >5b12ef8fd570: Pulling fs layer >5b12ef8fd570: Download complete >f6808a3e4d9e: Pulling metadata >f6808a3e4d9e: Pulling fs layer >f6808a3e4d9e: Download complete >99f259716c33: Pulling metadata >99f259716c33: Pulling fs layer >99f259716c33: Download complete >6059fe46b83e: Pulling metadata >6059fe46b83e: Pulling fs layer >6059fe46b83e: Download complete >cb60650ca7e4: Pulling metadata >cb60650ca7e4: Pulling fs layer >cb60650ca7e4: Download complete >cb60650ca7e4: Download complete >Status: Downloaded newer image for jeroenpeeters/public-networking:latest >containerid=5a5ae232229c7bc009ff9e4b3df1a44c924dede45240857f860517ad4cf7ae82 >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >waiting on IP from DHCP >ip=10.87.51.29 SUCCESS!!!! # docker ps >CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES >5a5ae232229c jeroenpeeters/public-networking:latest "bash /scripts/71261 5 minutes ago Up 5 minutes publicnetwork-SABnzbd >36665c5a45b6 needo/sabnzbd:latest "/sbin/my_init" 3 weeks ago Up 22 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp SABnzbd I can now access the SABnzbd server through 10.87.51.29:8080 instead of 10.87.51.78:8080 To specify the IP address, the create-network-container.sh script needs to be modified so that the DHCP server gets a MAC address from the container. I'll give it a try, but my script skills are limited. I also contacted the script writer if he would update the script so we can specify a fixed IP. To be continued...

I had the same bad experience with RFS, switched to XFS and now my drives have 300 to 700 MB free instead of several Gb and no timeouts or other problems like I had with RFS. See also: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=38409.msg362836#msg362836

It seems it is possible, just not easy (at least for me!!) See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25042542/how-do-i-connect-a-lxc-container-to-an-ip-alias http://blog.codeaholics.org/2013/giving-dockerlxc-containers-a-routable-ip-address/ https://github.com/jeroenpeeters/docker-network-containers I wouldn't know where to start...

IP address or Port? If it's IP address you're on about, may I ask why? I also would like to have different IP addresses for each Docker. The reason is that at the moment I use QoS with IP addresses (router limitation). At the moment I use VM's for SABnzb and BitTorrent with each their own IP. Using QoS means that my torrents and nzb downloads have maximum speed when nobody uses the internet at home. When someone visits a website, or uses VOIP, SABnzbd and BitTorrent gets almost no bandwidth, so it doesn't interfere with normal day to day internet usage. I would like to keep using QoS with Dockers, but I need the possibility for each Docker to have its own IP.

Is this because Slackware is really secure? Or is it because nobody bothers/is available to release a security announcement?

Read this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.0

My take on this: Reiserfs is VERY buggy!!! It was impossible to fill up the drives to nearly full while using Reiserfs (some people said this was with ALL filesystems, but that was not my experience, only RFS was giving me big problems), I constantly got timeouts and it was slow. Now using XFS and my drives are filled up with only 791 to 260 MB free. I could only dream about this with Reiserfs. And they fill up without 1 timeout or slowdown. If I want to copy another small file to these drives, then this just works. I don't know/use BTRFS, but it seems to me to be still somewhat immature... In short: dump ReiserFS as soon as possible!

Don't have the ASUS board, but I have a server with a Supermicro MB (See my sig). Works fine with one minor 'problem'. Sometimes, when I reboot, the network speed is 100 instead of 1000. Easely solved with a ssh login and the use of ethtool, and prevenable by not rebooting . All in all I'm happy with this board and would buy another one...

interwebtech: I read that too, but does it mean: - 2 x 2 Tb drive to get 4 Tb volume is supported or -2 x 4 Tb drive to get 8 Tb volume is supported? The IBM ServeRAID BR10i also does support larger than 2 Tb volumes, but drives are only supported till 2.2 TB. Is the ARC-1200 the same as the BR10i? I can only find references to larger than 2Tb volumes... StevenD: Thanks!

I have a server with mostly 4 TB drives and several 6Tb drives, a parity check takes about 17-18 hours (95Mb/sec average).

Probably a very stupid question, but does the ARC-1200 support 1 8Tb volume from 2 4Tb HD's? Can't seem to find the answer, enough references on other ARC cards, but none on this specifically. I read the release notes for the latest firmware, but also there is no mention about large HD's (for the ARC-1200). Who has one and can confirm if this would/wouldn't work? Thanks

I also don't understand why people want to use plop . Bootup with a vmdk is very fast. If you need bare metal, just pull the ESXi USB stick and then you are able to boot from the UNRAID USB stick (or change boot order in the bios)...

"Next Year", "Probably not in my lifetime' and "When the sun dies" appears to be more accurate... :'(

Hi, I removed a disk from a 20 disk array with 'new config'. No problems, but a lot of clicking was needed. I had to change every disk from - auto filesystem to xfs - disk sharing from public to private - give one user read/write access Need to click 'apply' for every setting above, and 'done' when all is done. This gets boring real fast, especialy with a large array. Please implement a button "Apply these settings to all disks". Thanks

I would recommend 2 M1015 and expander (had some probs with 3 M1015's).

There is some sort of filesystem corruption that a 'reiserfsck --check /dev/md17' can't detect. It's not something systemwide, no other 4Tb or other drive has this problem (see screenshot of my config a few msg's higher) The easiest (and thus far only, no other solutions have been suggested) solution seems to be to remove the drive, insert a new empty 4Tb drive, copy all data from old to new drive and then use the old 4Tb drive to upgrade a 2Tb drive to 4Tb. I bougth a 4Tb so I would be able to copy all data back to a 'new' disk17. Upgraded and installed drives a lot, never removed a drive, I am reasonable familiar with linux. Thanks

Media_Server login: root Password: Linux 3.9.6p-unRAID. root@Media_Server:~# smartctl --all /dev/sdv smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright © 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 Serial Number: PL1311LAG3J5EA Firmware Version: MPAOA3B0 User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Sat Aug 24 21:15:38 2013 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (43005) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off supp ort. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_ FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 134 134 054 Pre-fail Offline - 102 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 126 126 024 Pre-fail Always - 553 (Average 550) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 219 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 111 111 020 Pre-fail Offline - 43 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3456 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 221 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 221 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 250 250 000 Old_age Always - 24 (Min/Max 12/38) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. root@Media_Server:~#

I think you misunderstood. disk17 has some sort of error, i can't fill this drive to full (please read previouos msg's for details). Replacing this drive and letting it rebuild would create a bit-to-bit exact copy, including this error. I want this error gone. Thats why this procedure. Is it correct? Thanks

My new 4Tb drive arrived and I ran a 3 pass preclear on it. I would now like to replace dsik 17 with the new drive. I don't want to just replace it, the 177Gb should be useable, so a 'failed disk' procedure is not wanted. What I would like to do is (unraid 5.RC16c): - stop the array - remove drive 17 from list of drives. - run in shell 'initconfig' to invalidate parity (drive 17 is forever removed from the array) - start the array, it should start to calculate parity - press cancel. stop array and insert the new precleared drive in slot 17 - press start again, now let the parity calculation finish - after finish parity calculation, start a parity check - copy all files from the original disk17 with the help of another computer back on the new disk17 ---the end Is this a valid sequence of events, should I let the first parity calculation finish? I know I have for some time a unprotected array, just as all data on the old disk17 is unprotected untill I copy it back to the array. Haven't done this before, so comments are wanted... Thanks

mrow and BobPhoenix, thank you both for this writeup

Sadly nothing to see there. I started with a clean start, removed all files from the previous version (rc6). Flash drive was completly empty Copied vmtools to /extra and my key to the /config dir. I started unraid, it could not find any previous config, so I put all drives in the correct drive slots. Started a parity check When this was done (next day), added users and shares, misc settings (started the new permission script, time zone, etc...) I think i tried to copy it around this time: Jul 28 22:38:02 Tower kernel: mdcmd (178): spinup 23 Jul 28 23:38:07 Tower kernel: mdcmd (179): spindown 1 But nothing is visible in the syslog. I several times stopped and started the array later. I'm at work now, I'll try tomorrow to get a cleaner syslog. syslog.zip

I do use the disk share. I use win7 and copy from my SABdownloader to , in this case, disk17/bluray. I don't have a cache disk. It always gives a timeout at around 177 Gb free (I manually 'refresh' unraids main window every few seconds to see when it happens). I though it is some filesystem corruption. Maybe I deleted some files and the filesystem thinks those blocks are still in use? But a reiserfsck can't find any problems. I don't know what else to do, so any help is appreciated... Below is a screenshot of the main window. Thanks, Wim