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I love the extensibility and flexibility, both from a hardware and software perspective. I'd love to see better defaults from a security perspective.

I'm wondering if this is something to be concerned about. I recently swapped a spinny 1tb cache disk for a 500gb SSD. Oddly, unRaid is showing 750gb of cache available for my 500gb drive... I went about the process of adding the drive all wrong, adding the new drive before removing the old one. I'm assuming this is an artifact of that mistake, as I briefly had a cache pool of 1.5tb, but how to fix it? tower-diagnostics-20191215-0742.zip

Weird - there's definitely a gateway defined in the config you posted... DESCRIPTION[1]="LAN2" PROTOCOL[1]="ipv4" USE_DHCP[1]="no" IPADDR[1]="192.168.1.3" NETMASK[1]="255.255.0.0" GATEWAY[1]="192.168.1.254" I'm a Linux expert, but don't know a lot of how unRaid works. Hopefully everything works out for you.

The solution is not to put a gateway in the static IP configuration for NIC2. A gateway implies that there's a way to the rest of the world from that network, and is what's causing the confusion. Here's an example: I suspect folks would prefer that you post in the community forums before filing a bug report.

Resuscitation is (nearly) complete! New motherboard is installed, and man is this thing fast! I ended up picking up a new LSI 9207 for $60 on sale, so I'll pass along the Dell card when it arrives. It was twice the price, but I'm more comfortable with something that I know the history of. I also ordered 2x250gb M.2 drives that haven't arrived yet, so I'll toss those in later. I also dug up a an old cheapo graphics card to drop in for the time being. The only unfortunate thing about the new setup is the SATA port placement on the new motherboard. It's crowded, so I understand the design choice, but it will be tricky to utilize them. If I get more drives, I'll have to decide whether I want to sacrifice my last big PCI-E slot for another HBA, or deal with tricky cable routing. Here's a picture of the motherboard mounted in the case before i routed any cables, with the SATA ports circled.: Other than enabling virtualization settings in the motherboard, I haven't made any configuration changes, but everything seems dead stable. My only complaint is that the CPU fan is pretty darn loud under load. I may explore quieter options in the future. In the meantime, I'm removing the useless (for me) top case can and closing up that giant hole in the case, and replacing a couple of failing fans with new units. Thanks @trurl and @johnnie.black for the advice and helping me get up to speed on this decade's technology. The current unRaid is exactly what I wished the old unRaid could be. @limetech has done a wonderful job of evolving and developing this product.

Thanks @johnnie.black. XFS. It is. This just isn't going to fly. I'm going to borrow a spare 2TB drive from work and figure out a better way... I can't even guess what would cause such low transfer speeds. One of the disks is on the motherboard, and one on a junky Marvell expansion card, but still.

The screenshot below is where I am now - I was looking at the unBALANCE plugin to clear off the new 4tb drive once parity is done, format that, then move on to other devices. I already cleared/reformatted my cache drive, so that's all set. Caution seems to dictate XFS, but I've read a few posts that seem to indicate the btrfs is ready to prime-time. What's your opinion? (I don't seem to be able to @ you)

I have! I'm running 6.8.0-rc7. I haven't done much with it, as it's still rebuilding parity after the drive replacement, but it looks very slick. Sorry - I meant to mention that in my original post.

I started off a few days ago bringing an ancient unRaid 5 server back to life. My Original build back in the day was this: unRaid 4.7 CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 600E 2.2Ghz 45w - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TPGLVG Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KPP4JO RAM: CORSAIR XMS 4GB DDR3 (2), to be expanded- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233132 Case: Helios 910 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RS4HVQ Power Supply: SeaSonic X650 Gold SS-650KM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088 Success in that arena! A minimum of cleanup - I just wanted to see if the darn thing worked (the fan filters, they do notheeeng!). I replaced a drive, which was fun as all the labels I'd stuck onto cables and drive had unstuck, so I had to remove each disk to check the model/serial number. now I'm here, running 4tb parity, a new 4tb data drive, 5x2tb data drives, and a 1tb cache drive. The wiring is temporary. It's temporary! It seems silly to be running a spinning disk as cache in this day and age, so I ordered up a 500gb SSD to fill that role. Then I thought about all the Docker containers I've been running on my DS218+, and the fact that it's sort of silly to run two NAS devices side by side... Now I have a whole pile of parts heading my way! Most importantaly, an AMD RYZEN 7 2700... An ASUS ROG Gaming motherboard A couple of sticks of 8gb DDR4 RAM A Dell Perc H310 (to be reflashed while I look real busy at work) and breakout cables I'm keeping the case, fans (well, except 2 that are going bad and I've ordered replacements for), and power supply for the time being. Open questions for me: * Should I return the 2.5" SSD for an M.2 SSD now that I'm entering the modern world (or maybe a couple of them)? * How good of a person am I? I'll be passing the DS218+ on to a friend soon, but it has a couple of fairly new 3tb drives in it, and here I am with all these old 2tb drives... I can fit another 2 or 3 drives into this case (I have 2 unpopulated 5.25" slots), but I'm thinking the best plan will be to replace disks as they fail with larger ones, or just as I need more space. That assuming, of course, that I get all the new hardware into a running rig. With my previous experience with unRaid, I'm feeling pretty confident, but I'd love to hear if I've bought something terrible!

Well, after running unRaid 5 for 4 days, doing 2 parity checks and a bunch of file cleanup to create some space, I finally decided to take the plunge. Of course, as soon as parity started rebuilding on unRaid 6, I started getting read errors from my questionable drive. I guess it's time to cross my fingers and hope I don't lose too much data off of that drive and after parity rebuilds, swap the sucker out. I should have been more cautious.

Hi All - I thought I'd re-introduce myself to the community. About 2 years ago the unRaid setup that I'd been running for 8ish years dropped a drive. At 8 years old, It had grown from an initial 3x2tb drives to a 4tb parity drive, 6x2tb array drives and a 1tb cache drive (it was laying around). Brilliant person that I am, none of the drives or cables in the case are labeled, and I never upgraded to hot swap enclosures. As you can imagine, it's a bit chaotic inside that case (this is on my list of things to be remedied) After the move, chaos ensued and I never pulled the server out of the basement. Shortly after that, I ended up getting a divorce, more chaos ensued, as well as serious financial limitations. A friend gave me a Synology DS218+ that's been adequate and allowed me to enter the magical world of dockerization, but 3tb of storage only goes so far when you're used to 12tb. I finally decided unearth my server and fix and update it. After an exciting round of vacuuming and several cans of compressed air, I found that 2 fans had died in storage, but the bad drive has magically fixed itself. That's not what I expected... I'm on my second parity check. Each disk has passed an extended SMART test. I have no memory of which drive failed. I'm considering booting off a USB stick and doing a sector scan of each disk. I'm also wondering if I should look a gift horse in the mouth and just put aside the new drive I have and wait for a problem. If the drive lives for a month or two, I'll have the funds for hot swap enclosures. Anyways, unRAID v5.05 on an Athlon II 600e with 4gb of RAM, back alive (and going to stay that way, darn it!). For now, the DS218+ is doing a great job in running all my containers and acting as a Plex Media Server (the Atom processor it has supports hardware transcoding), so I'm imagining that I'll be running the two devices side by side for a while until I can afford to upgrade the motherboard/CPU on the real server. Eventually, unRaid will be a proper virtualization environment with a couple of Linux servers, Plex Media server, Home automation, and all the usual media server Docker containers. If you made it this far, thanks for reading!

Hi RedLaws, I did some reading on the forums here, and asked Google a few questions, but didn't find any specifics on permissions. I tried chown'ing some of the directories to nobody.nogroup based on a couple of posts I saw, but no joy. What permissions are you referring to? Thanks, Josh

That actually was the complete syslog, but it had rotated recently I've tarred and zipped the last 3 syslogs, but they were large, so here's a link to them on Dropbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8364709/sysogs.tar.gz

Hi all, I'm hoping you all can help me out with a problem that's been perplexing me. I'm running unraid 5.0 final, and all shares are read only when I mount them on my computer (a mac). I can make changes when I ssh into the server as root. I've looked through the log, but can't find any error messages. I've tried exporting the shares as public, private and secure, granting read/write permissions where appropriate. I've attached the share config files for a couple of shares with different configurations, but that display the same behavior. I'm happy to provide any other information that could be helpful. This may or may not be a linked issue, but AFP shares never show up for me (see Music.cfg). That's not a high priority for me, as using Samba works fine. Please also see quoted below the syslog for today: smbd log: Misc.cfg Music.cfg

Have you tried guest/no password?

I'll take a tack that's slightly more complicated to set up, but has some real benefits... Crashplan. There are a few howto's around on how to get it up and running on unRAID. It supports backing up to a local disk, and will handle versioning, data deduplication and sending status emails to you on an automated basis.

I think I've run into an issue not previously reported. I ran the script successfully, and there are no errors in the syslog on my unRAID server. When I try to start the Time Machine backup, it thinks for a while and gives me this message: Poking around the TM share, it looks like that file is getting created: A couple of things: * I don't know if this is a bad thing, but I set the TM share as /mnt/user/time.machine, instead of /mnt/diskX/TM as in the example. It already existed and was being exported as an smb share from previous expirements. * I'm running the free version of unRAID for the time being. Anyone have any thoughts? I attached the script output and syslog, although it all seems to be in order... Thanks in advance! *edit - attachments don't seem to be working for me... I can email them to folks, or add it inline if necessary.

The low power options from AMD are a little slim. The Athlon II 610e is probably overkill and it's expensive ($140), but it's the next 45w proc in their lineup that I'm aware of. If you're less concerned about power consumption, the Athlon 2xx series are nice, and are 65w. They run $50-100. There was a post here a couple of days ago that price drops are in works for most of the AMD lineup, so you may want to do some reading to see if it's worth waiting a couple weeks before pulling the trigger... 610e: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103899 255: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103873

Ah gotcha. I was thinking of disk 0 as /dev/sda, which is one of the data drives. Thanks for clarifying!

I installed the unraid-status-email package through unMenu yesterday in the course of building my server. It's sending me failure notifications every hour, but I'm never able to find any errors in the syslog. Right now the system is operating without a parity drive - I'm in the process of preclearing it. Could that be the problem? I'm attaching my syslog, and the emails I'm receiving look like this: Subject:unRaid Failure Notification - One or more disks are disabled or invalid. Status update for unRAID Tower - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Status: ERROR: The unRaid array needs attention. One or more disks are disabled or invalid. Disk 0=DISK_DSBL_NP Server Name: Tower Server IP: 192.168.2.2 Date: Mon May 9 09:47:02 EDT 2011 Output of /proc/mdcmd: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - sbName=/boot/config/super.dat sbVersion=1.1.1 sbCreated=1304884566 sbUpdated=1304885035 sbEvents=3 sbState=0 sbNumDisks=3 sbSynced=0 sbSyncErrs=0 mdVersion=1.1.1 mdState=STARTED mdNumProtected=3 mdNumDisabled=1 mdDisabledDisk=0 mdNumInvalid=1 mdInvalidDisk=0 mdNumMissing=0 mdMissingDisk=0 mdNumNew=0 mdResync=0 diskNumber.0=0 diskName.0= diskSize.0=0 diskState.0=4 diskModel.0= diskSerial.0= diskId.0= rdevNumber.0=0 rdevStatus.0=DISK_DSBL_NP rdevName.0= rdevSize.0=0 rdevModel.0= rdevSerial.0= rdevId.0= rdevNumErrors.0=0 rdevLastIO.0=0 rdevSpinupGroup.0=0 diskNumber.1=1 diskName.1=md1 diskSize.1=1953514552 diskState.1=7 diskModel.1=SAMSUNG HD204UI diskSerial.1=S2H7JD6ZB00486 diskId.1=SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2H7JD6ZB00486 rdevNumber.1=1 rdevStatus.1=DISK_OK rdevName.1=sdb rdevSize.1=1953514552 rdevModel.1=SAMSUNG HD204UI rdevSerial.1=S2H7JD6ZB00486 rdevId.1=SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2H7JD6ZB00486 rdevNumErrors.1=0 rdevLastIO.1=0 rdevSpinupGroup.1=0 diskNumber.2=2 diskName.2=md2 diskSize.2=1953514552 diskState.2=7 diskModel.2=SAMSUNG HD204UI diskSerial.2=S2H7JD6ZB00472 diskId.2=SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2H7JD6ZB00472 rdevNumber.2=2 rdevStatus.2=DISK_OK rdevName.2=sdc rdevSize.2=1953514552 rdevModel.2=SAMSUNG HD204UI rdevSerial.2=S2H7JD6ZB00472 rdevId.2=SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2H7JD6ZB00472 rdevNumErrors.2=0 rdevLastIO.2=0 rdevSpinupGroup.2=0 syslog-2011-05-09.txt

I had some issues getting my drives to preclear successfully - you can see the gory details in this thread (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12747.0), but the long and short of it is that I had a defective stick of memory, which is currently on its way back to Newegg for replacement. Now that I finally got that worked out, the parts have been installed in the case. I built the array with two precleared drives and no parity to start, using the future parity drive as a transport to bring all my data into the machine. The initial copy is complete and I'm preclearing the 3rd disk now. Preclears with the disks sitting on the desk ran in the mid 30's C, while the current one is running 22C I'll be running the box as a dedicated unRAID system for a few weeks to work out the kinks, then moving to ESXi. The biggest variable that I need to work out is whether my motherboard supports IOMMU so I can pass PCI devices to ESXi. I haven't found any tests for my chipset (AMD 880), so I'll just have to find out myself. If I'd done more research ahead of time I think I would have gone with an inexpensive Xeon board with official VT-d support. I'd lose a fair amount of efficiency but gain certainty and a supported solution. Hindsight is 20-20 I guess... I'll snap a couple of pics tonight, but it looks pretty much like any other Helios case, with worse cable organization.

I'm getting an error message when I try to submit the posts. It suggests I go back and try again. When I do that, it gives a duplicate post error - the first attempt is working even though it's triggering the error. The error message is: Database Error Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator.

Looks like it was a bad memory stick after all. I yanked one of the two and ran preclears on both drives with no problems. Thanks for the support, Joe L! Time to case it up!

If you don't need easy access to adjusting fan speed, there are a couple of good options. First: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118217&cm_re=fan_controller-_-35-118-217-_-Product I've use these before, and they're rock solid. Second: undervolting the fans. By splicing a couple of wires you can lower the voltage fed to the fans from 12v to 7v. http://www.overclock.net/faqs/13386-how-silence-my-fans-undervolting.html

I bought an Athlon 605e, last week, so I figured a big price drop was coming!