Some brief details to establish this is 1: a newb's server and 2: it's no surprise something went wrong.
I am currently running without parity or a cache, as this is a brand new server and I have 4tb of files to transfer off an old NAS. From what I've seen the common wisdom is to run without a cache (as I only have a 1tb NVMe for that) and without building parity until I finish everything up. The array in its entirety is a 10tb HDD (for now, at least. I plan to add at least one more array drive and my 12tb parity drive will arrive in a day or so).
In an effort to not generate a ton of heat in the case (my actual CPU cooler with a beefy fan doesn't get here until this afternoon) I set up Krusader using the Spaceinvader One tutorial and started toying with transferring files from my Synology NAS mounted as an SMB. The first couple small transfers worked, so I got cocky and started a 200-ish gb transfer of a bunch of files and left the browser running in the background while I goofed around in a game for an hour. At some point during that hour the transfer failed, and when I came back the tab for Krusade was offline. For a split second I saw a notification in the file transfer about there being a better version of a file at the destination already, but that might not be relevant.
All shares are gone. All dockers are gone.
Like a fool, my first instinct was "restart and this will fix everything" so I don't have diagnostics from that. I do have diagnostics from the period after that first reboot, and I've attached those. I ran Check System File Status test on the drive and it spat this out:
Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
Phase 2 - using internal log
- zero log...
ALERT: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which is being
ignored because the -n option was used. Expect spurious inconsistencies
which may be resolved by first mounting the filesystem to replay the log.
- scan filesystem freespace and inode maps...
sb_icount 128, counted 33920
sb_ifree 14, counted 243
sb_fdblocks 2417496215, counted 2315457246
- found root inode chunk
Phase 3 - for each AG...
- scan (but don't clear) agi unlinked lists...
- process known inodes and perform inode discovery...
- agno = 0
- agno = 1
- agno = 2
- agno = 3
- agno = 4
- agno = 5
- agno = 6
- agno = 7
- agno = 8
- agno = 9
- process newly discovered inodes...
Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks...
- setting up duplicate extent list...
- check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks...
- agno = 0
- agno = 2
- agno = 4
- agno = 5
- agno = 1
- agno = 3
- agno = 6
- agno = 7
- agno = 8
- agno = 9
No modify flag set, skipping phase 5
Phase 6 - check inode connectivity...
- traversing filesystem ...
- traversal finished ...
- moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ...
Phase 7 - verify link counts...
No modify flag set, skipping filesystem flush and exiting.
Now, it should be noted: nothing on the array was particularly precious to me as I am fully in the "learning how to live here" phase and nothing on the server is 'in production' so to speak. It's destined to be a Jellyfin machine that's constantly hooked up and left on like a "real" server, but in these early days I'm still tinkering, adding parts, and it's getting shut down for most of the day. If the solution is "wipe everything and start over" I am totally fine with that, all I'll have lost is the electricity burned copying files for an hour-ish.
That said, I do want to hopefully figure out exactly what went wrong and how to fix the situation so I don't accidentally do it again while copying 4tb of media over.
Thank you for your time, and thanks for maintaining this incredibly well-designed forum!
Edit: I have since installed and run the Fix Common Problems plugin and it returned no errors. Just some suggestions for enabling automatic plugin updates.
tower-diagnostics-20231108-2307.zip