March 11, 201511 yr I have noticed 2 distinctly different behaviors when formatting a disk to XFS. Behavior #1 - The most normal behavior. After clicking the format button, the webgui will appear to hang for a very long period of time (felt like approaching 10 minutes on a 4T disk). You definitely have the feeling that emhttp has hung. When it finally returns, it will show the disk as "formatting", but a single refresh will show the disk format is complete. Behavior #2 - The webgui will return within seconds of clicking the format button showing the disk is formatting. Refreshing will show the disk is formatting and increasing writes to the drive. It still takes a long time for the format to complete, but you are able to refresh and see it making progress and does not raise any alarm. Behavior #2 is probably the right behavior, so not sure what is happening to cause behavior #1. As I am writing this I am wondering if I see #1 when reformatting an old RFS, and #2 on a new disk. Not sure but maybe.
March 11, 201511 yr My experience of #2 is that the length of time can vary depending on the refresh rate you have set. For example if set to 'slow' (1 minute) I see the time until the next refresh counting down in the status line, and only when it reaches zero does the screen return from me having pressed the format option.
March 11, 201511 yr I have noticed 2 distinctly different behaviors when formatting a disk to XFS. Behavior #1 - The most normal behavior. After clicking the format button, the webgui will appear to hang for a very long period of time (felt like approaching 10 minutes on a 4T disk). You definitely have the feeling that emhttp has hung. When it finally returns, it will show the disk as "formatting", but a single refresh will show the disk format is complete. Behavior #2 - The webgui will return within seconds of clicking the format button showing the disk is formatting. Refreshing will show the disk is formatting and increasing writes to the drive. It still takes a long time for the format to complete, but you are able to refresh and see it making progress and does not raise any alarm. Behavior #2 is probably the right behavior, so not sure what is happening to cause behavior #1. As I am writing this I am wondering if I see #1 when reformatting an old RFS, and #2 on a new disk. Not sure but maybe. When I was converting my disks I expereinced plenty of behavior #1. I had my page refesh rate as whatever the default was under 6b12a or was it 6b12... I also formated a new drive XFS but I don't remember if it did behavior #2 on that disk, I mostly remember Behavior #1, where I would hit format, it would appear to hang then it would come back as saying "formating" but upon hitting refesh it would show as complete.
March 11, 201511 yr This is a little akin to the behaviour I observe when checking for plugin updates. Sometimes the 'Plugin Update Check' pop-up window lists the plugins one by one, as it scans through them. At other times there is no output until all of the plugins are listed at once.
March 16, 201511 yr This is a little akin to the behaviour I observe when checking for plugin updates. Sometimes the 'Plugin Update Check' pop-up window lists the plugins one by one, as it scans through them. At other times there is no output until all of the plugins are listed at once. This is very likely related to your Internet connection or the response times of github. For every plugin check the PLG is downloaded from the origin site and compared to the installed version on the system.
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