Have you tried rebooting the Windows machine as well?   

 

If the files are showing up under MC then they must be present!  If they are still not being seen by Windows after a reboot then the only other likely problem is a permissions issue of some sort.

Have you tried rebooting the Windows machine as well?   

 

If the files are showing up under MC then they must be present!  If they are still not being seen by Windows after a reboot then the only other likely problem is a permissions issue of some sort.

 

Hi itimpi, yes i have re-booted windows, i have also checked net access from a Mac laptop too, still no joy, the shares will open, but inside is blank, no directory's or files.

Have you tried rebooting the Windows machine as well?   

 

If the files are showing up under MC then they must be present!  If they are still not being seen by Windows after a reboot then the only other likely problem is a permissions issue of some sort.

 

Hi itimpi, yes i have re-booted windows, i have also checked net access from a Mac laptop too, still no joy, the shares will open, but inside is blank, no directory's or files.

You might want to check the permissions on the server.  If in doubt rerun the New Permissions utility.  You could also clear any cached credentials at the Windows level.

 

Have you tried looking to see if the files show up OK via the unRAID Web GUI?  What security setting do you have for the share?

Have you tried rebooting the Windows machine as well?   

 

If the files are showing up under MC then they must be present!  If they are still not being seen by Windows after a reboot then the only other likely problem is a permissions issue of some sort.

 

Hi itimpi, yes i have re-booted windows, i have also checked net access from a Mac laptop too, still no joy, the shares will open, but inside is blank, no directory's or files.

You might want to check the permissions on the server.  If in doubt rerun the New Permissions utility.  You could also clear any cached credentials at the Windows level.

 

Have you tried looking to see if the files show up OK via the unRAID Web GUI?  What security setting do you have for the share?

 

Security for this and other smb shares is set to Private, User access.

The files/directory's do not show up under the shares web gui page either. but they do show under the main page, when individual drives are browsed, but there seems to be problems, as some directory's are showing "0 byte" empty sizes and Last modified date "Unset" 

Would this be a permissions problem that would be solved with running the permissions script, or could it be disk corruption at all, as looking at the syslog, there are a lot of reiserfs errors?

If you are getting reiserfs errors then you could certainly have files not showing up as a consequence.  However I would not expect them to show up in MC either so that is a bit confusing.  I have also seen files not show up if a drive has unexpectedly dropped offline for some reason and that not showing up until I stop the array.

 

I would put the array into maintenance mode, and then on any drive that is indicating reiserfs errors (or even ones you merely want to check) from a telnet/console session run a command of the form:

reiserfsck --check /dev/md??

where ?? corresponds to the disk number being checked.  The results of that would give an indication as to whether you have an FS corruption.

Will Do a check on all drives and will report back here when all drives checked.

hmm so maybe I am going mad then. lol

 

Limetech do we have any options here as it would be ideal to teach fuse that a mv from a cache only share to a fuse share that has using the same cache is instant.

 

Right I am officially NOT going mad.

 

You can easily make this instant by setting a share as cache only but then use the user share path in any commands:

 

root@TOWER:/mnt/user/downloads/complete# time mv /mnt/user/downloads/complete/test/ /mnt/user/movies.hd/

real    0m0.003s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

 

This is not immediately obvious and I bet a load of people are suffering form this and not relaising i.e. sabnzbd user etc

 

 

 

This is not immediately obvious and I bet a load of people are suffering form this and not relaising i.e. sabnzbd user etc

 

If unRAID can 'get smarter' about this internally, hopefully we can benefit from it when initiating the move from other programs (my media player, for example), and we won't have to issue mv commands directly in unRAID.

 

Ok, first and foremost, can you reboot into safe mode to see if the parity check performance issue continues?  I want to see if this is plugin related since I see you're using a bunch.  Just a quick "sanity check" before we move on in troubleshooting...

 

Thought I uninstalled the old plugins from v5, guess not. I did have apcupsd and unmenu running, disabled unmenu and booted into safe mode, showing 1.1MB/s now, current position 533MB after 5 minutes, going to let it continue to run.

 

EDIT: Think i might've found my problem. Went thru and read a large file from /mnt/disk* for each drive with dd, all drives came back with 100+ MB/s except one. That drive is dying isn't it?

 

That fixed it, swapped drives around now rebuilding at ~110MB/s. Guess I had a drive decide to fail at the exact same time I decided to try beta6. Thanks for the help jonp

Have you verified that you rally had a bad drive? You might also have had an issue with the cabling, resulting in transfer errors and the disk transfer mode switching from a fast DMA mode into an extremely slow and CPU-intensive PIO mode.

 

On the other hand - lack of automatic supervision of the disks means that a disk can be bad for quite some time without it being noticed.

Hi All,

I have a problem, discovered this morning, Last night After Disk 6 failed with red ball,  i did the disk swap and parity rebuild onto the new 2 tb drive, now when i look at my shares from my pc, there seems to be a lot of data missing.

for example my "Share1" media share now seems to my windows machine to be totally empty.

I have checked using midnight commander on unraid system , that all my data drives "seem" to have the data still there under the individual drives.

System is just booted, i have not done anything to it. could anyone please help with a suggestion what to do now please.

The end of your attached syslog has a lot of REISERFS warnings and errors on md6 and md12. Also, your flash drive has

Jun 29 07:38:26 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

Hi All,

I have a problem, discovered this morning, Last night After Disk 6 failed with red ball,  i did the disk swap and parity rebuild onto the new 2 tb drive, now when i look at my shares from my pc, there seems to be a lot of data missing.

for example my "Share1" media share now seems to my windows machine to be totally empty.

I have checked using midnight commander on unraid system , that all my data drives "seem" to have the data still there under the individual drives.

System is just booted, i have not done anything to it. could anyone please help with a suggestion what to do now please.

The end of your attached syslog has a lot of REISERFS warnings and errors on md6 and md12. Also, your flash drive has

Jun 29 07:38:26 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

 

Hi trurl,

Thanks for that, im still in the process of checking the 12 drives in my system. Its taken me over two days to get round to checking them all, (I'm on disk 8 at the moment), and doing them sequentially.

Funny about the flash drive, i have never had any problems with it before, will check that at the end of the Reiser checks too.

After setting up the authorized keys for my SSH login in 6b, I'd like to disable root login by password.  I can change the /etc/ssh/ssh_config to disallow password authentication, but this doesn't persist through a reboot.    I'd expect the refreshed SSH settings to come from /boot/config/ssh/ but that directory doesn't have an ssh_config file in it.  I can only find advice for 5.x that says it's in /boot/config/ which doesn't seem to be true in 6b.

 

Am I missing something?  Where are the settings stored that populate the running ssh_config file? 

 

Thanks

hmm so maybe I am going mad then. lol

 

Limetech do we have any options here as it would be ideal to teach fuse that a mv from a cache only share to a fuse share that has using the same cache is instant.

 

Right I am officially NOT going mad.

 

You can easily make this instant by setting a share as cache only but then use the user share path in any commands:

 

root@TOWER:/mnt/user/downloads/complete# time mv /mnt/user/downloads/complete/test/ /mnt/user/movies.hd/

real    0m0.003s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

 

This is not immediately obvious and I bet a load of people are suffering form this and not relaising i.e. sabnzbd user etc

 

hmmm but you are again now trying to mv between the same "device".  what if you run your test between /mnt/cache and /mnt/user/[cache-only-share]

 

 

This is not immediately obvious and I bet a load of people are suffering form this and not relaising i.e. sabnzbd user etc

 

If unRAID can 'get smarter' about this internally, hopefully we can benefit from it when initiating the move from other programs (my media player, for example), and we won't have to issue mv commands directly in unRAID.

 

I can't speak to your specific case, but I know when using windows to move stuff from /mnt/user/torrents to /mnt/user/torrents/[tv_show_folder] it is instant.  Every time I do that move, there are a bunch of files on the array and at least one on the cache.  This happens after I've pulled all but the last episode of a season over time, and then when the full season-torrent is posted I grab the season-torrent but only download that last episode.  Then I move all the earlier episodes into the season-folder before verifying local data.  And that move for all the files is instant using windows move.

i haven't paid enough attention to teh specifics lately, but sometimes it's super fast/instant, and sometimes it takes a really long time.  I sort of assumed that the fast cases were while files were still on the cache, but can't swear to that.

 

if/when I ever get my windows VM running property (with GPU passthru), I'll try to pay more attention and do some testing.

I just realized that the extension page has a box for starting/installing plugins.  the box isn't a "browse" box, so you have to know to put the full path/filename there.

 

Anyway, I just tried installing Apcupsd-3.14.12-x86_64_2pb.plg and it seemed to be successful, but it doesn't show the plugin on the plugins page, so I'm not sure it's installed properly.

 

Also, I've got the plugin in the /boot/config/plugins directory, assuming that should have installed it also.

 

Perhaps someone can clear up the 'right' way to install plugins now, and if they should be shown on the plugins page.

 

thanks.

I just realized that the extension page has a box for starting/installing plugins.  the box isn't a "browse" box, so you have to know to put the full path/filename there.

 

Anyway, I just tried installing Apcupsd-3.14.12-x86_64_2pb.plg and it seemed to be successful, but it doesn't show the plugin on the plugins page, so I'm not sure it's installed properly.

 

Also, I've got the plugin in the /boot/config/plugins directory, assuming that should have installed it also.

 

Perhaps someone can clear up the 'right' way to install plugins now, and if they should be shown on the plugins page.

 

thanks.

I think that plugins are to be installed the "old" way, either via command line or putting it in the plugin folder and rebooting.  Unless they are updated and specifically say that you can install it via the extensions tab on the gui.

Anyway, I just tried installing Apcupsd-3.14.12-x86_64_2pb.plg and it seemed to be successful, but it doesn't show the plugin on the plugins page, so I'm not sure it's installed properly.

 

As far as I'm aware, we still have no documentation on how to write plugins for the new installer.  Tom said that he would produce a new apcupsd plugin as part of a tutorial /how-to for the new installer, which is why I've not made any futher releases.  I've not heard anything more on the subject.

yeah, Tom's not done anything with the GUI or the plugin stuff.  I do wonder if he's even still involved in unRAID.

 

Hopefully jonp will get something done with this one of these days.

 

FYI, gfjardim wrote a plugin for dockers, and it installed fine from the installation page, and it shows as a plugin on that page also.  perhaps looking at his plugin will give a clue on how to do it.

My motherboard (ASRock E3C224-4L) has 8 SATA ports onboard - but only 6 are being recognized.

 

The two that are not being recognized are on a "Marvell SE9172" controller.

 

On boot and in the BIOS I see the attached drive on these ports, but in unRAID they are not showing up.

 

Is support for this controller included? If not, can it be added.

 

Thanks!

My motherboard (ASRock E3C224-4L) has 8 SATA ports onboard - but only 6 are being recognized.

 

The two that are not being recognized are on a "Marvell SE9172" controller.

 

On boot and in the BIOS I see the attached drive on these ports, but in unRAID they are not showing up.

 

Is support for this controller included? If not, can it be added.

 

Thanks!

 

I spent most of the weekend fighting Marvell controllers.

 

I decided to try running unraid under kvm on opensuse. It turned out that there's a bug in a lot of Marvell controllers that causes them to fail under newer kernels. (Slow boot due to a raft of io faults and subsequent failure to recognise the attached drives).

 

Unfortunately, one of my mobo controllers and a 4 port sata pcie card are Marvell based so if I boot to to opensuse I lose 6 sata ports and both my esata ports.

 

I would add this is only when iommu is enabled in bios. Switching off iommu or setting iommu=soft in grub parameters fixes it (but breaks virtualisation, of course).

 

There's a proposed kernel patch for this which seems to work but has not yet been adopted for inclusion in the kernel. See this thread;

 

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42679

 

This requires a rebuild of the Linux kernel with a patch which is quite beyond me. I've had to revert to unraid 6beta5 which works fine for me. I haven't tried beta6 yet but am now worried it will break access to drives on Marvell controllers.

 

Perhaps LT could consider including this patch?

 

Peter

 

 

My motherboard (ASRock E3C224-4L) has 8 SATA ports onboard - but only 6 are being recognized.

 

The two that are not being recognized are on a "Marvell SE9172" controller.

 

On boot and in the BIOS I see the attached drive on these ports, but in unRAID they are not showing up.

 

Is support for this controller included? If not, can it be added.

 

Thanks!

 

That's crazy.  For me 6b6 fixed io issues I was having but maybe it was the newer xen. I have a 2 port 9172 with a ssd for domains and a 2.5" laptop hd for mythtv recording. Also have a 4 port 9230. I just rebuilt a 2GB to 4GB on this controller.  No problems on either. 

 

In the past I put the slower drives on the 9230. I also turned off sata aggressive link power management.  I had a problem with drives dropping off.

 

 

My motherboard (ASRock E3C224-4L) has 8 SATA ports onboard - but only 6 are being recognized.

 

The two that are not being recognized are on a "Marvell SE9172" controller.

 

On boot and in the BIOS I see the attached drive on these ports, but in unRAID they are not showing up.

 

Is support for this controller included? If not, can it be added.

 

Thanks!

 

That's crazy.  For me 6b6 fixed io issues I was having but maybe it was the newer xen. I have a 2 port 9172 with a ssd for domains and a 2.5" laptop hd for mythtv recording. Also have a 4 port 9230. I just rebuilt a 2GB to 4GB on this controller.  No problems on either. 

 

In the past I put the slower drives on the 9230. I also turned off sata aggressive link power management.  I had a problem with drives dropping off.

 

I have an SAS2LP and a SASLP in the box as well - both other Marvell controllers. Maybe I had some kind of conflict between them.

 

 

My motherboard (ASRock E3C224-4L) has 8 SATA ports onboard - but only 6 are being recognized.

 

The two that are not being recognized are on a "Marvell SE9172" controller.

 

On boot and in the BIOS I see the attached drive on these ports, but in unRAID they are not showing up.

 

Is support for this controller included? If not, can it be added.

 

Thanks!

 

That's crazy.  For me 6b6 fixed io issues I was having but maybe it was the newer xen. I have a 2 port 9172 with a ssd for domains and a 2.5" laptop hd for mythtv recording. Also have a 4 port 9230. I just rebuilt a 2GB to 4GB on this controller.  No problems on either. 

 

In the past I put the slower drives on the 9230. I also turned off sata aggressive link power management.  I had a problem with drives dropping off.

 

I have an SAS2LP and a SASLP in the box as well - both other Marvell controllers. Maybe I had some kind of conflict between them.

 

I'll try 6b6 on my system this evening and report if there's any affect on Marvell controllers.

 

I seem to have come across a GUI issue.

 

I am running 6.0b6 and managing the GUI on a Windows 8.1 Update 1 computer running IE 11.

 

If I click on Info it brings up the box with the system details, but when I click to close it the contents of the box disappear, but the actual box stays stuck. If I manually hit refresh on the tab it goes away, but I can't click Close to close it properly.

 

Not sure if anyone else has seen this.

 

I first noticed when trying to figure out an issue with the Docker GUI extension that uses the same pop-up windows.