In this episode Thecus the NAS blows a gasket.

Well here's my first hiccough in my rebuilt network. The NAS decided it'd had enough already. <sigh> I s'pose I should get back to looking gift horses in the












































































































































































































mouth.

During initial setup it behaved fine and dandy. It seemed to feel the HD's were healthy enough. When the network got physically reconfigured, it got a new IP address and like a donkey I didn't change the gateway address for it. Still this wasn't a real biggy seeing as it was being mounted by brightmatter and thats where it shared from.

So during the rearranging it got a power cycle, and I have to say it just hasn't been the same since. :( It decided to stop detecting the drives, if I took one drive out it would sometimes detect the one left in, didn't seem to matter much which one was in or out. It also got its power supply replaced too, not quite sure what was on it before, but to see if it made any difference, I have it a 12v 5A in places of a 4A job, no change...

Lots of fooling around with HD's, power and tearing hair later, I decided enough was enough, I'll take the drives and mount it in the win 7 box and copy them from there. Gah, after installing the FS translator I see on the two drives I have 4 partitions that all appear as SWAP, not even ext4.

Alrighty then the last avenue I have is to try Sophos. I have to install mdadm and some LVM2 packages get a crash course in how to rebuild your RAID array when all I'm thinking is JBOD. Turns out Thecus' JBOD is built on LVM so you have to have raid tools to work with it. Anyhoo it finally mounts... a ragged cheer goes up from the wildman thats pulled an all nighter behind the KB trying












































































































































































































to fix it. I get brightmatter's share point mounted as well and get the copying under way. Its not belting along for all its worth.

So my take away from this is... check the HD's in the NAS even if it says they're ok. Don't trust a NAS to make your JBOD unless you want LVM, faster access but if one volume won't mount its all over. mergerFS is much safer if one goes down the rest will still function. Given the Thecus is fairly intractable in its options, its probably better have new spinning rust and take












































































































































































































it from there.

Here endith the epistle,

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--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
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Next time maybe you'd want to have a live CD with native tools for
this sort of stuff on hand, like System CD Rescue. It has all the
LVM and mdam tools included just for this sort of crisis :-) I
always have some of them around. I get them from Linux Magazine
:-P

Perhaps, although with the initial problem out on the thecus no cd was going to












































































































































































































help out there. I haven't actually seen a "live" cd in a long time, although they used to be all the rage once. You're probably right though, be easier than cracking open Sophos and jumping 2 drives from outside the box with an extra power supply :)

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--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)