dave Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) Hi all, I am having an issue where one of my SSDs in my cache pool is showing up as an Unassigned Device. I have tried two different things so far: 1) When I stop the array to try and re-add it to the cache pool, it gives an error saying "All existing data on this device will be OVERWRITTEN when array is Started". 2) If I try to set the Slots back to 1, then start the array, I get the following error for the disk that is in the cache pool "Unmountable: No file system" I am not sure how to proceed and could use some help. I have attached the diagnostics as well. Thanks! Dave tower-diagnostics-20210609-1629.zip Edited June 11, 2021 by dave Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Remove both devices from the pool, start the array, stop the array, assign both devices back to the pool and see if that works. Quote Link to comment
dave Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 When I try to remove the one remaining drive from the pool, I get the Missing Disk error and the Start button is greyed out: Quote Link to comment
dave Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 An interesting thing is that the Unassigned Device is showing as 1.07GB in size. This is a 128GB SSD drive. My cache pool included a 120GB and 128GB to create a pool size of 124GB. The cache pool is still showing size of 124GB even though the second disk in the pool is missing. Is this correct? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 10 hours ago, dave said: he cache pool is still showing size of 124GB even though the second disk in the pool is missing. Is this correct? It's still mounting the pool (including the unassigned device), since it's available. 11 hours ago, dave said: I get the Missing Disk error and the Start button is greyed out: Quote Link to comment
dave Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 Ok, I tried all the permutations available to these disks and nothing worked. Fortunately I was still able to access the cache disk share so I copied off all of the files I needed then started over. I am back up and running! This really highlighted to me the importance of having parity on the data otherwise this could have been much much worse. I also am now going to start copying the data from the cache drive to the array more frequently so this is an even smaller issue in the future. Thanks all! Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 22 minutes ago, dave said: Ok, I tried all the permutations available to these disks and nothing worked. What do you mean permutations? You just needed to start the array without any pool devices assigned, then re-assign both, that should have done it. Quote Link to comment
JGhost7 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Thank you had this exact issue. Starting with no pool devices. Stopping then adding them back in worked! Quote Link to comment
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