Determine block size for badblocks

July 13, 2017, 8:20 am

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The excellent [How To] Hard Drive Burn-In Testing shows two ways to run `badblocks`.

The basic way:

badblocks -ws /dev/ada#

And with `-b` to tell `badblocks` to use a specific byte size that's sometimes necessary for disks over 2TB in size:

badblocks -b 4096 -ws /dev/ada#

While that last command is working fine for me, I'd like to know if there is a way to determine...

Determine block size for badblocks

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Hello from New York

July 13, 2017, 8:23 am

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My name is William from New York City. I have been using FreeNAS for the past five years for a few of my small business clients.

FIXED - Cannot delete zvol as it's busy - but it's not!

July 13, 2017, 8:36 am

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I know I did things all wrong, but i'm looking for some help tio remedy this.  Last week I lost my boot device.  I had to rebuild with a new USB and import my volumes but I didn't have a config file saved.  So I killed my jails and recreated but when I killed my VM, I think I did things wrong and ended up deleting the "folder" in SSH file manager and not deleting the zvol in the GUI.

My VM is no more but in the volumes view in the GUI, there is still a zvol I can't delete:...

FIXED - Cannot delete zvol as it's busy - but it's not!

FN11 -- swap_pager_getswapspace(#): failed.

July 13, 2017, 8:36 am

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I logged into the FN11 webui to create a jail today, and noticed a *lot* of these entries.

I haven't seen them before, and have made no hardware changes in a couple of years.

I've attached a picture of the graph of my swap space as well, but it doesn't look like it was full unless I'm misreading.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Code:

Jul 10 00:00:00 freenas newsyslog[91109]: logfile turned over due to size>200K
Jul 10 00:00:00 freenas syslog-ng[1613]: Configuration reload request received,...

FN11 -- swap_pager_getswapspace(#): failed.

L2ARC & Cache for shared ESXi SAN

July 13, 2017, 8:36 am

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Hello Everyone,

I am currently in the process of implementing a new ESXi shared SAN in my home for provisioning and running VM's from. This new SAN will be created on an HP DL360e Gen8 1U server, with 4x 3.5 inch hot swap bays (two SATA 6.0 and two SATA 3.0 Gbps ports). The drives to be used for the mass amount of storage will be some 1 TB WD RE4's. My question for this setup is whether I should use ZIL, L2ARC, or both; and if these should be done on a SATA or PCI-e SSD.

I should note that...

L2ARC & Cache for shared ESXi SAN

lazylibrarian keeps breaking on updating

July 13, 2017, 9:10 am

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Have been trying to install lazylibrarian for a while. It works for a couple of days then breaks on updating. Anyone else facing this issue? any ideas on resolution?

USB Boot Disk?

July 13, 2017, 9:11 am

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I was reading DrKK's "Guide: How much will a proper home FreeNAS setup cost me?" sticky post in this group, and I see that he brought up using a low-profile USB stick as a boot drive? Did I read that correctly?
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ll-a-proper-home-freenas-setup-cost-me.28936/


If so, is that not a no-no due to reduced read/write speeds over USB compared to SATA or the like? Is it really not that big of a deal?

EDIT: I was unsure if I...

USB Boot Disk?

Harddrive wont start smartd/serial is too long

July 13, 2017, 9:52 am

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Not sure where the best place to post this is as this is my first post. I cannot get the smart service to start. I have tried enabling it from the gui and shell with no joy. I fould that smart does not seem to be enabled for drive da0. I tried starting it vi shell with this command smartctl --smart=on /dev/da0 the error I recieve is
=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
unable to fetch IEC (SMART) mode page [scsi response fails sanity test]
A mandatory SMART command...

Harddrive wont start smartd/serial is too long

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Moving Docker config from Corral to FreeNAS 11

July 13, 2017, 10:05 am

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Hi there,

I updated to FreeNAS corral when it came out, and have a couple of docker containers running on it (no problems btw).
I want to switch to FreeNAS 11 though now but I want to move the docker configs as well to use it in a VM image with docker installed.

Can anyone tell me how to extract the configuration of my running containers in Corral?
I'm not sure how the webinterface stores it and with inspect I only see entrypoint.sh calls.

The data (volumes) is stored on my disks.

Problem with rsync'ing a shared filesystem on MacOS

July 13, 2017, 10:20 am

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Hi folks
My MP3 files and the iTunes Library is located on a FreeNAS 11 share. This share is mounted on my MacBook on /Volumes/iTunes. For backup purposes and when I'm on vacation, the directory is rsync'ed to a mobile USB disk, the external disk is mounted on /Volumes/Data

Code:

rsync -atuv --delete /Volumes/iTunes/Library/ /Volumes/Data/iTunes/Library

This works fine. But when I try to rsync the disk 'back', all files on the disk are copied back to the share, regardless if the files...

Problem with rsync'ing a shared filesystem on MacOS

permissions windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit

July 13, 2017, 10:26 am

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ok here is goes i been trying to fix this for days now i just upgraded to w7 64 bit from w7 32bit and i could changed any file i liked and all the good stuff now that im in w7 64bit i no longer have any kind access just read only i have tried to change permissions in windows and get error like access denied i have add my user to freenas and nothing is working and once i boot back into my old os (w7 32bit) everything just work like it use to so i need help

thank you any1 for you time

ps...

permissions windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit

'sudo su' asks for password twice

July 13, 2017, 10:30 am

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Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is a general freeBSD or FraaNAS issue i'm having.
When logged in via SSH, and asking to become root with 'sudo su', I'm being asked the password twice :

Code:

$ nasimon
rezatoune@nasimon.home's password:
Last login: Sun Jul  9 18:59:25 2017 from 192.168.1.34
FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 (FreeNAS.amd64) #0 9e57002a9(freenas/11-stable): Sat Jul  8 04:52:22 UTC 2017

  FreeNAS (c) 2009-2017, The FreeNAS Development Team
  All rights reserved.
  FreeNAS is released under the...

'sudo su' asks for password twice

Hoe freenas via internet beschikbaar maken.

July 13, 2017, 10:34 am

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Beste,

Ik ben volledig nieuw in Freenas.
Lokaal kreeg ik mijn server snel aan de praat.

Nu wil ik via internet ook mijn mappen kunnen benaderen om backups van mijn windows server naar de freenas te sturen. (windows server 100gb)
Ik ben nu helemaal het spoor kwijt geraakt hoe ik dit het beste kan doen.
Ook kan ik vrij weinig plekken een goede guide vinden.

Ik hoop dat 1 van jullie me kunnen helpen.

Groetjes

TV tuner with FreeNAS

July 13, 2017, 10:35 am

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I didn't see much discussions on this and what I did see was quite old..

I have an aging HTPC that's probably 6ish years old or so now.  my FreeNAS box is way more powerful and has A LOT of storage, ~12TB of storage sitting idle or so.

I have a ceton tv tuner that'll only work with windows 7 & 8 drivers.

Is there any solution here with FreeNAS?  Can I install windows 7 in a jail so I can load up the drivers for my tv tuner card and then use plex to handle the rest?

Is UPnP really that bad a security risk?

July 13, 2017, 10:45 am

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My router has a "security assessment" function from Trend Micro.  I clicked on it last night, and most things turn up "OK".  The exception is for uPNP being enabled (see attached screenshot).  I did some online reading and found several opinions stating UPnP is a security risk.


So I disabled UPnP, and predictably some services made a fuss.  No big deal, except that Plex is no longer accessible outside of my home network.  Manual port forwarding should be an alternative, but I could not get...

Is UPnP really that bad a security risk?

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some samba shares not working after upgrade

July 13, 2017, 11:05 am

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Hi,

I upgraded to 11. After that my samba went somehow broken. I can connect to my home dir, but not to the dirs that are shared among users. When I do this:

$ smbclient -W mynet -U jako  //freenas.mynet/folder
Enter MYNET\jako's password:
Domain=[FREENAS] OS=[] Server=[]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_SID

I get this in log:
[2017/07/13 20:50:21.232187,  2] ../source3/auth/auth.c:305(auth_check_ntlm_password)
  check_ntlm_password:  authentication for user [jako]...

some samba shares not working after upgrade

Need some advice on processor and power supply

July 13, 2017, 11:11 am

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Hey guys,

Thought I would toss across my dilemma a bit.

I am getting very close to ordering parts, and I am trying to make a server for home use using the Xeon D platform in a Fractal Node 304.  I am going to be making a second almost identical box to replace my ESXi server.  Currently both boxes are just a frankenstein of parts.  They have served me well but it is time to upgrade.

First, I believe I want to use the 6 core Xeon-D version, but I am thinking this might be overkill.  I will...

Need some advice on processor and power supply

Windows Server or FreeNAS for deduplication

July 13, 2017, 11:33 am

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Hi all,

I've done quite a lot of searching for this but most forum threads seem to recommend compression over deduplication, however I don't think this would work well for our requirements, so I've signed up to hopefully find out a bit more. We use NextCloud and we're looking to upgrade our storage backend, currently a Synology box. The way NextCloud stores data, specifically the previous versions of files, is by simply storing another copy of the file, that is incredibly similar to the...

Windows Server or FreeNAS for deduplication

L2ARC & Cache for shared ESXi SAN

July 13, 2017, 11:43 am

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Hello Everyone,

I am currently in the process of implementing a new ESXi shared SAN in my home for provisioning and running VM's from. This new SAN will be created on an HP DL360e Gen8 1U server, with 4x 3.5 inch hot swap bays (two SATA 6.0 and two SATA 3.0 Gbps ports). The drives to be used for the mass amount of storage will be some 1 TB WD RE4's. My question for this setup is whether I should use ZIL, L2ARC, or both; and if these should be done on a SATA or PCI-e SSD.

I should note that...

L2ARC & Cache for shared ESXi SAN

Server Closet Cooling - Intake Fan Recommendations?

July 13, 2017, 11:49 am

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I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post, honestly couldn't find a better option, but here is the scenario:

• I have a server closet of 59 cubic feet that I need to manage temperatures for.
• Thankfully the ceiling of that closet extends to 100" and there is a 21.5" tall plenum above it of at least 454 cubic feet.
• I plan to exhaust the warm air from the ceiling into that space using a...

Server Closet Cooling - Intake Fan Recommendations?