July 6, 201016 yr Hi There - I have sucessfully set up 2 UNRAID 12 drive systems, and am going through them in some detail - so far really impressed !- A few details im still trying to work out - There seems to be issues with things not staying spun down - I'm seeing drives spun up for no reason, as well as drives that just dont seem to stay spun down, even though nothing is connected user share wise. Should all drives be a seperate spindown group? What is reccomended proper spindown config? This could be an AFP issue.. Note that for 2 drives with AFP you need to set the AFP config so it knows about the second server (Defaults to loopback address and thus loads only one server - whichever you access first in the case of 2 servers!) This was the only tough thing to fix, took me 2 days of hours... but now its doccumented here. Monitoring Remote Usage - Im wondering how i can figure out what is using a drive thats not spun down - and if there are users on the machine or its some other issue. How do i tell whats going on UNRAID vs NET USAGE? Drive Activity Long after startup finished and NOT doing parity check - Sometimes i see alot of drive activity - and disconnected the net cables - still blinking like mad. So not net usage. Why isn't the array spinning down most of the time - like the next day, drives i would never think would be spun up are. Any suggestions from those who have gone here before? What do i need to do to make things spin down most of the time unless actually accesses or running something like a parity check. CNDdrdave
July 7, 201016 yr lsof will show you all the open files on the server and what process is using them.
July 10, 201016 yr Author ISOF - either isn't there in this distro or wrong path or syntax. Please Advise as to correct method. Or where to get it and install it (How?) I have only a little unix/terminal window experience, so more details is better - THANKYOU Ill go looking for it, tho not confident ill get a cookie.... SPINDOWN: Disk.cfg has spindown groups - put each drive in its own spindown group. Each should be in order - any out of sequence numbering in the spindown groups should be corrected EG drive 1 = spin 1 etc. This fixed NAS2 - NAS 1 is still showing activity on a bunch of drives and is not properly spinning down. This is a BIG problem as the server rack has minimal cooling and will overheat if all drives do not spin down when not accessed. MY NAS UNITS: Running 4.5.4 w Samba and AFP layers primarily for MAC usage 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 2 Units / 12 Drives per - 12 TB and 18 TB respectively.
July 10, 201016 yr ISOF - either isn't there in this distro or wrong path or syntax. Please Advise as to correct method. Or where to get it and install it (How?) I have only a little unix/terminal window experience, so more details is better - THANKYOU Ill go looking for it, tho not confident ill get a cookie.... Try spelling it correctly with an "L" and using all lowercase letters. Think of it as what it does list open files: lsof.
July 11, 201015 yr Author Heres the dump from lsof NAS1 just isnt working correctly, something is running that is broken... At the moment drive 2 wont unmount. Had to power down script, THAT didnt work, Had to Power Button OFF - and of corse it wants to re-do parity. Unfortunately 3 pages of dump tells me nothing... HELP Ready to dump and post the syslogs next... UNFORTUNATELY THE OUTPUT OF lsof is TOO LONG TO POST. Now what?
July 11, 201015 yr Heres the dump from lsof NAS1 just isnt working correctly, something is running that is broken... At the moment drive 2 wont unmount. Had to power down script, THAT didnt work, Had to Power Button OFF - and of corse it wants to re-do parity. Unfortunately 3 pages of dump tells me nothing... HELP Ready to dump and post the syslogs next... UNFORTUNATELY THE OUTPUT OF lsof is TOO LONG TO POST. Now what? What do you have on your LAN that would be opening up those files...? The open files are not the issue, they are a symptom. We really don't care what they are. The process opening them, and not closing them is the issue. Stop any add-ons. (If you have any) Disconnect from the LAN if needed... and use the system console. Joe L.
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