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ReadyNAS RN316 showing Volume Is read-only
Can someone please help. My RN316 is showing "Volume is read-only". i've tried replacing 3 of the 6 disks, only 1 of which had shown any errors in the "ATA error" item when you hover the mous...
craigat wrote:
Hi,
The RN316 seems fine... its just read-only.. I can copy files off it, I can play videos from it.
Is there anything I can do? or just destroy it?
Thanks,
Craig
The best strategy is to do a factory reset, set up the NAS again, and restore the data from a backup.
Which is why I keep asking if you've made a backup.
craigat wrote:
My RN316 is showing "Volume is read-only".
Its getting to expensive to just replace disks for the "heck of it".
Read-only is usually triggered by a problem with the BTRFS file system, not the disk drives.
You could try downloading the full log zip file from the NAS, and looking in there for details. There is a lot of info there, I could help you analyze it if you like. (Don't post a link to the logs publicly, as there is some information leakage when you do that).
craigat wrote:
If I copy all the data off, what do I do to resolve this?
Do a factory default (either from the boot menu or system->settings->update in the admin web ui). Then reconfigure the NAS (recreating shares, etc) and copy the data back.
What you have been doing is may create more issues, it won't solve the problem. The volume has gone read-only to prevent you from doing further damage before you back up the files, so take the hint.
You should be able to save the configuration and restore it again later rather than completely re-configure manually. Note that you do need to use the same volume name for that to work. You likely can also just destroy and re-create the data volume.
If your NAS set-up is pretty standard without a lot of users, it won't matter much. Note that you will need to restore apps in either case, which now takes extra effort.
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