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4.2.31 on my Ultra 6 has killed my NAS? Drive is read only and frontview hangs.
So I logged into my Ultra 6 and noticed there was a firmware upgrade available from May 2017! Since I get at least two emails from my NAS every day I assume it should have emailed me about this, but ...
Clearly the file system has corruption, you also need to confirm the disk health.
What do you see in disk_smart.log (reallocated, current pending sectors, offline uncorrectable, etc)? Have you gotten any email alerts related to disk health?
redpola wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions beyond "Backup your 12GB data, install OS6 and start again"?
OS-6 would be up to you. You hopefully realize that your data is at risk, so you should be backing up what you can.
All fine. The filesystem has no corruption.
I need to get to the bottom of this before I go for OS 6. I'd rather my device worked the same as it did before the OS upgrade. Is it possible to downgrade?
The changes in 4.2.31 were mainly security patches - nothing that would cause disk corruption. So I don't think this is upgrade related (despite the timing). You can certainly downgrade if you want to.
So nothing in the logs... Nothing in SMART...
Hardware? RAM? I might run a memory test and see what that says.
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