November 14, 20241 yr Community Expert 5 hours ago, another_hoarder said: It's too bad Unraid doesn't maintain some sort of a long term persistent log so that I could learn what actually happened and learn from it somehow. It can if you enable the syslog server.
November 14, 20241 yr Author 15 hours ago, itimpi said: It can if you enable the syslog server. That's also going on my list of post-repair, post-upgrade tasks. Thanks!
November 17, 20241 yr Author Well, 3 days later, with the whole remaining array backed up 🙃 and another attempt at a running xfs repair, the darn browser crashed as the xfs repair tab ran out of memory, going up to to 8GB+. I guess the endless [...] doesn't get cleared but just keeps filling the buffer. *sigh* The official Unraid instructions for using it in CLI, given much larger disks, should be updated, imho, to have that command ran via nohup / screen so that the tab can be closed. Now I'm debating starting that one last time from scratch or just popping the cleared disk in the array and letting it rebuild. It's been lonely without my dockers for almost a week. (This also reminds me that while simplifying a while ago to Unraid has made my homelab very hands off, running a small separate HA proxmox cluster for important dockers meant that nothing was ever offline. Some life decisions to revisit after upgrading from 6.9.2 to 7.0, I guess).
November 18, 20241 yr Author Another interesting update. Even though while it was being emulated only, parity seemed totally fine, upon popping the disk back in, even though (as expected) it still shows up as Unmountable: No file system, and wants to be formatted, a parity rebuild has also kicked off and that hasn't happened before. I'm confused but curious as to what will happen after it's rebuilt. And I've a temporary syslog server up to log it all this time.
November 20, 20241 yr Author OK, end of suspense. After parity rebuild ended, it was still unmountable. Formatted and the array is back minus whatever data was on that disk. I'll be upgrading to 7.0 over the Christmas break and in the meantime I'm enjoying a fixed UPS connection, a working backup solution, updated notifications to work Slack and a remote syslog. Thank you both @JonathanM and @itimpi for your help, I learned a bunch of new things. LMK if I should close this thread somehow.
November 20, 20241 yr 20 minutes ago, another_hoarder said: LMK if I should close this thread somehow.
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