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OS 6.10.5 CLI management commands (for managing RAID groups)
Are there any CLI commands for managing RAID groups in OS 6 ?
I have just apparently serendipitously recovered from the Authentication Loop bug in the management interface (remove disks and boot with disk 1 only seemed to make it settle down) but it was such a nightmare that it would be good to have an alternative to the web interface.
I am comfortable with the CLI and don't really care about the web interface.
Thank you.
Thank you for your helpful remarks StephenB.
I am giving some attention to replacing the discs with more suitable models.
In the meantime, since it's manifest that I don't know what I am doing, I have bought Netgear support who will certainly do a better job getting me out this mess than me.
Thank you.
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Managing RAID groups can be done with normal mdadm and btrfs commands.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Backup jobs, share settings, maintenance tasks, power schedules, email alerts, ...
The Netgear volume_util in usr/bin has a lot of options that let you do most of what you can do with volume creation/expansion from the GUI. But I've not discovered anything to work with shares.
Thank you StephenB.
I expect I am trouble with this (tick all the boxes: no web interface - sadly, it's back in the Authentication loop; and just about zero conceptual knowlege of the ReadyNAS RAID implementation) but since a data reshape is sitting on 2.75% (from front panel) and top shows load averages of 6.01, 6.08, 6.07 with the md127_raid5 process sitting on 100%, I was looking for alternative ways of knowing what's happening etc.Well, that's what you use the mdadm and btrfs commands for. To see the status of RAIDs, including sync status, use cat /proc/mdstat. Or if you want a continuous update, use watch cat /proc/mdstat. This is not unique to the ReadyNAS. MDADM is a standard part of Linux and BTRFS is a common addition. So just Googling for standard Linux commands will get you started.
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