Hi,
I've been using Unraid for quite a while. Never had a severe issue. All fine. Recently, I wanted to create another VM, but failed. Weird BTRFS errors every time I created the machine. Even the boot ISO got corrupted. I also noticed that I started to get errors on docker containers. Which I did not really see before. Not sure if it was the update to 6.12. Not sure if it was another config change I did with the machine. It got weirder over the next hours, with RCU_preempt CPU stalls, native_queue_spinlock_slowpath errors... strange stuff.
If I switch off docker and vms, the machine is rock solid. If I switch docker back on, btrfs on the ssd starts to have issues. tested again today by just running one jellyfin docker. After an hour, the log said
Oct 30 10:07:52 unraid kernel: BTRFS warning (device dm-9): csum failed root 5 ino 72988 off 14955741184 csum 0xcbb64ed6 expected csum 0x2cd71eff mirror 1
Oct 30 10:07:52 unraid kernel: BTRFS error (device dm-9): bdev /dev/mapper/sdm1 errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 95, gen 0
I already bought a new ssd and changed the adapter the ssd is connected to. And I have a hard time believing that anything else would just wear and tear suddenly. So I would like to check if it's a software problem (maybe self-inflicted) before digging into hardware diagnosis.
As my docker containers and the VMs are anyway corrupted beyond repair, I would like to test if a "clean" 6.11 would behave the same way. Can I just create a 6.11 usb, copy /config/super.dat and /config/shares and boot from that? I would guess that should get me to a usable state with not much tweaks. Correct? From there, I would just create a new VM and see, if it also behaves badly. If so, I would continue to check for hardware errors.
Any comment would be appreciated. Especially ones that would point me to things breaking or potential data loss if I go ahead with my plan.
Thanks!
andreas.
P.S.: Not sure if this is important, but all my drives are encrypted (xfs for spinning disks, btrfs for ssds).
P.P.S.: I read a ton a posts. The typical first response to such issues seems to do a memtest. Tried that. The memtest included in unraid is not willing to boot in my board. The memtest I downloaded from the original site did not boot either. Gave up after trying several times.