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    [Plugin] Parity Check Tuning

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    Using version 2023.04.08 for the first time, the Action in my History page has only a hyphen ("-") for the most recent run which was completed at noon today. It was running in 4 increments according to the same page. Normally, I would expect the Action to show "Scheduled Non-Correcting Parity-Check" like it did in March.

    [Plugin] unbalanced

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    Tiny cosmetic request: the next time you update this plugin, can you please remove the "v" prefix in the version designation? Most of my other plugins use the same YYYY.MM.DD format but without any "v" prefix. Occasionally I like to sort the list of plugins in the WebUI based on version, to quickly identify the oldest/newest.

     

    Cheers,

    T

    [Plugin] ControlR

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    Tiny cosmetic request: the next time you update this plugin, can you please remove the "v" prefix in the version designation? Most of my other plugins use the same YYYY.MM.DD format but without any "v" prefix. Occasionally I like to sort the list of plugins in the WebUI based on version, to quickly identify the oldest/newest.

     

    Cheers,

    T

    Dynamix - V6 Plugins

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    20 hours ago, jaybee said:

     

    Just realised that for some reason since the last update, when I went into the dynamix sleep plugin page on my server, it had a status in the top right hand corner to say that the plugin's status was "STOPPED". (90% sure it was stopped, off the top of my head but it may have said something else. It was orange in colour). I don't know why this was. I made a change to something in the options, clicked apply, then changed it back and clicked apply again and the status changed to "STARTED". My server then shut down as before last night and normal service resumed. 

    So it seems for me the latest update did something where the plugin was left in a stopped state for whatever reason. Might be worth checking this.


    On my side, the status says “Running” in green. On your suggestion, because the Sleep plugin is no longer working also in my system, I changed the first setting to Disabled. This changed the status to “Stopped” in orange, and like you I seem to recall this is what it said in the past (before the most recent update) as well. I changed the setting back to Sleep, but going to sleep it does not. 🤷‍♂️ I’m sure I haven’t touched any configuration since it was working, except for installing a few updates including the latest Sleep plugin.

    Dynamix - V6 Plugins

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    6 hours ago, sjohnson said:

    Still using 6.9.2 as I can't get my LibreELEC VM to work with 6.11 and I get warning that SSD Trim isn't installed warning via Fix Common Problems.


    I encountered the same problem in September. It isn’t possible to back out 6.11 if you’re using an SSD. 

     

    New corr/noncorr indicator in Parity Operation History report

    in Completed

    Posted

    On 2/12/2023 at 6:00 PM, itimpi said:

    If you cancel too quickly or look to soon after cancelling then then this might happen.  The plugin runs a monitor task every 17 minutes by default if it is not specifically monitoring an increment (it is more frequent when actively monitoring an increment).   You need to give this task time to spot that the check started and later that it finished. 

     

    I ran a new test for 26 minutes, cancelled, then waited 20 minutes. The history is still not showing whether I had enabled corrections or not, it now just says "Manual Parity-Check". 

     

    Secondly, installing a plugin that does a whole lot more than I want is increasing the complexity of my setup and therefore also the risk for undesirable side effects later. I only want the history display to be a little more informative. I don't have any need for incremental parity-checks etc.

     

    Thirdly, the plugin provides a link to a support thread that is invalid: https://unraid.net/forums/topic/78394-parity-check-tuning

     

    Cheers,

    T

    New corr/noncorr indicator in Parity Operation History report

    in Completed

    Posted

    I expected something like that. After installing the plugin, I tried running manual parity checks, once with and the other without the corrective checkbox ticked. As this takes nearly two days on my system, I then cancelled the processing. Both tests say only "Parity-Check" in the Action column, just like before I had this plugin in my system. It will however be helpful to see future scheduled runs with a different Action, and then any manual run could be implicitly assumed to be corrective. Not perfect but it goes half the mile. :)

    FIXED! M.2 SSD doesn't mount after wake-on-LAN

    in General Support

    Posted

    Issue solved! :) This is not a request for support, only intended to help someone who is perhaps facing the same issue I was.

     

    My server has an internal slot for an M.2 PCIe nvme SSD that I use as a cache for the appdata, domains and system shares. The server is on standby during nights using the Sleep plugin. After a wake-on-LAN ping from my iPad in the morning, the cache drive failed to mount. I saw log entries saying I/O error on dev/loop2, and mc displayed the device name in red with a question mark under /mnt. A reboot always solved it, until the next WOL. Other posts here made me double-check that my docker apps were correctly configured with all folders in place, then I suspected a hardware issue. My SSD is less than a year old, but it appears that some controller chips don't support sleep/wake modes. I replaced the SSD with a different make & model, and now the issue is fixed!

     

    The SSD that didn't work is a GAMMIX S50 Lite 512G-CS. The replacement is an Innovation IT SSD M.2 256GB.

     

    Cheers,

    T

    Dynamix - V6 Plugins

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    On 9/20/2022 at 3:21 PM, firedo said:

    Dynamix S3 Sleep - New Feature (patch included): Array Parity Check/Rebuild

     

    I needed a Sleep inhibitor for the array parity check/rebuild. As I don't want to use HDD spindown's and still want my PC to sleep automatically. I noticed that when going to Sleep Mode the running Array Parity Check was cancelled by the time the PC resumes from sleep. So, I made this modification to your plugin so that you can enable/disable (default: enable) a check that will prevent your PC from going to Sleep/Shutdown Mode when an Array Parity Check/Rebuild is currently running (or paused). The result of the last parity check doesn't matter to the script. Only that it has stopped or finished.

     

    I made these modifications to the plugin, feel free to use them. If you want, you can include some or parts of it in your plugin if you want.

     

    Others can apply it with the below command (after the plugin has started):
    cd / && patch -p1 < /path/to/patchfile

    And then restart the s3_sleep script:

    /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.s3.sleep/scripts/rc.s3sleep restart
    Note: These commands must be added to the /boot/config/go script to make them persist after a reboot. An update to the plugin might make the patch not applicable anymore.

    dynamix.s3.sleep.parity_check.patch 4.57 kB · 3 downloads

     

    I've applied your patch but I don't see any new configuration setting for the S3 Sleep plugin. Did I do something wrong, or it's normal?

     

    Dynamix - V6 Plugins

    in Plugin Support

    Posted · Edited by daTroll

    I've backed out from 6.11.0.rc5 to 6.10.3. Now Fix Common Problems is complaining that Dynamix SSD Trim is missing (it is removed during the 6.11.0.rcx upgrade). I try to reinstall SSD Trim, but it fails:

     

    plugin: installing: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bergware/dynamix/master/unRAIDv6/dynamix.ssd.trim.plg
    plugin: downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bergware/dynamix/master/unRAIDv6/dynamix.ssd.trim.plg
    plugin: downloading: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bergware/dynamix/master/unRAIDv6/dynamix.ssd.trim.plg ... done
    plugin: downloading: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bergware/dynamix/master/archive/dynamix.ssd.trim.txz ... failed (Generic error)
    plugin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bergware/dynamix/master/archive/dynamix.ssd.trim.txz download failure (Generic error)

    External JBoD case doesn't hibernate

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, SimonF said:

    It is so Unraid knows when drives are accessed, an once it will update disk status and get temp.

    Ah... but the GUI doesn't display any temp for a disk that is in standby mode, it only shows * (an asterisk) instead.

     

    It seems to me that an OS could determine whether there is any actual IO on a HDD without asking the controller for stats every second, no??

    External JBoD case doesn't hibernate

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted · Edited by daTroll

    17 minutes ago, trurl said:

    Not relevant but we weren't asking about specific dockers or VMs. Even if no dockers or VMs are running, system share still has open files if Docker or VM Manager is enabled in Settings.

     

    Fair enough, and perhaps I wasn't expressing myself clearly. My dockers and VM are both disabled and stopped, and I can still see the activity LEDs are flashing for drives that are in standby mode (not spinning). 

     

    Side note: I suppose that UnRAID will not automatically spin down a drive that has the system share or a VM domain on it. For my external drives, the GUI will clearly show when all four drives are in standby mode, and still the LEDs are flashing.

    External JBoD case doesn't hibernate

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, SimonF said:

    I think this is due the way spin ups are detected from 6.9.x onwards. All of my systems HDD LEDs blink approx every 2secs. I think reading IO stats from the controller is detected as usage, but doesn't spin up drives.

     

    This is interesting! My LEDs are flashing about twice every second (i.e. 4 times as fast as yours).

     

    Maybe you are onto something, but why would UnRAID want to read the IO stats from the controller of a disk that UnRAID has put in standby mode?

    External JBoD case doesn't hibernate

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted · Edited by daTroll

    8 minutes ago, trurl said:

    I guess the enclosure doesn't allow hibernate, or at least doesn't allow Unraid to spindown unused disks. Just one of many reasons USB not recommended for array or pools.

     

    But the drives do spin down! This I can see both in the GUI and hear from the enclosure. It's just that the fans keep spinning and the LEDs are flashing. When I attach this enclosure and drives to a Windows PC, both the drives and the enclosure are successfully put into sleep mode (and the LEDs go dark). It's only with UnRAID that the enclosure doesn't sleep. In other words: UnRAID doesn't allow the enclosure to enter sleep mode and the flashing of the activity LEDs appears to be directly related to this.

     

    A friend of mine has a similar setup, but using different brands and models of hardware. He has noticed the same thing, that the external enclosure is never put to sleep automatically when the drives in his enclosure are on standby/spun down.

    External JBoD case doesn't hibernate

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted · Edited by daTroll

    24 minutes ago, Squid said:

    If the docker image (or folder) or VM's are enabled and the libvirt image are stored on that drive, it will not sleep

     

    It still doesn't sleep without any docker or VM enabled.

     

    /mnt/user/system/libvert is on an internal drive, i.e. not on one of the external drives in the TerraMaster enclosure that this topic is about.