February 12, 200818 yr Whenever I've done some house-keeping on my server I have to stop the array & restart it in order for the user shares to reflect the changes I've made. On a few occasions, including this evening, when I stop the array most of the HDDs report as being "UNFORMATTED" but with a green "light" and the Parity is reported as Valid? This causes me a major heart panic every time, selecting STOP again at this point does nothing and I have to use the Telnet "poweroff" command to execute the cleanest shutdown I can and the restart. This is always followed by a parity check and I'm sure all will be ok again this time, I'll find out in 14 hours or so. PLEASE can we have the option to rescan the user shares without stopping the array back? Like many people I prefer to choose which HDD I write to and the panic this causes is not good for my health. Thanks, Mark.
February 13, 200818 yr This will happen if any client has an open file on the volume, or in some cases, just a mapped drive. Also, if you have a telnet session open with the cwd on a mounted drive.
February 13, 200818 yr Author This will happen if any client has an open file on the volume, or in some cases, just a mapped drive. Also, if you have a telnet session open with the cwd on a mounted drive. Ah! Thank you, I do believe I had a telnet session sitting idle at time time. But still... Tom, Can we have the rescan back please! Mark.
February 14, 200818 yr A drive status of 'Unformatted' just means that system could not mount a reiserfs partition on the drive. Most of the time this is due to there really not being a reiserfs partition on the drive. Sometimes mount can fail for other reasons - we will try to fix this. As for 'rescan' - You must be creating files directly on the 'disk' shares, in addition to having user shares enabled, is this correct?
February 14, 200818 yr As for 'rescan' - You must be creating files directly on the 'disk' shares, in addition to having user shares enabled, is this correct? That's how I do it, and I too would like to see a rescan option. (More precisely, I have disk shares set up as read+write but hidden, and with user shares as just read-enabled.)
February 14, 200818 yr Author As for 'rescan' - You must be creating files directly on the 'disk' shares, in addition to having user shares enabled, is this correct? That's how I do it, and I too would like to see a rescan option. (More precisely, I have disk shares set up as read+write but hidden, and with user shares as just read-enabled.) Same here
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