August 17, 20241 yr Hello all, I think I'm "missing something" in trying to get my array to protected status after some drives had problems. Two parity drives 1 cache pool of three ssds Array of spinning drives One of the spinning drives in the array started reporting bad sectors. I physically removed it from the system without attempting to move anything off of it. Parity check ran without errors. Drive showed as "not installed". I do not remember noticing the array saying it was unprotected. Sometime later a second drive started reporting bad sectors. It was removed from the array, cleared/formatted, but is still physically attached and shows in unassigned devices. At some point I noticed the array was unprotected. The cache pool is in green. So far as I can tell there are no files/folders from the cache pool on the array. Nor, from what I can tell, there're any files/folders from the array on the cache pool. I've been through forum posts and think I've tried all the things I'm supposed to try. Parity/read-checks have been run. Mover will "run" but remains "running". Quotes are there because I see no reads/writes anywhere and eventually the drives spin down. I have gone into the "not installed" drives and moved all the stuff that remained to other drives. After lots of drive activity that completed and there's nothing showing as being on those two "not installed" drives. I made the assumption that nothing needed to be moved from the failing drives and that the next parity check would do a rebuild of the data on the missing drives and all would be good. I once walked past my own mother in a mall, so I think I'm simply missing the obvious. Can anyone help, please? Thank you, Jim crypt-syslog-20240817-2142.zip crypt-diagnostics-20240817-1743.zip
August 17, 20241 yr Community Expert You have "used up" your redundancy because you have 2 missing disks which is all dual parity can emulate. You need to rebuild those disks if you want to keep their data, or New Config to really remove them from the array, and rebuild both parity.
August 17, 20241 yr Community Expert Looks like disabled/emulated disks 3 and 10 have little or no data. Is that expected?
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