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EKroboter
Apprentice
Oct 19, 2015

6.4 makes our 516 to lock up during disk balance, need to abort. URGENT!

The 6.4 firmware updated continues to screw up everything, it's becoming the worst update ever from Netgear. During a disk balance task, our 516 completely locks up. No frontview access, no SSH, no ...
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guigui_bebert
Guide
Oct 19, 2015

Same here, but as it is not a production unit I reduced the load from other services and it eventually finished syncing.

 

But a few hours later it locked up (because I copied a file from one share to another) and I had to power-shutdown and guess what... the sync began again!!

EKroboter's avatar
EKroboter
Apprentice
Oct 19, 2015

God. Looks like someone is gonna get fired for letting the 6.4 firmware out. It's been nothing but headaches.

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    EKroboter
    Apprentice
    Oct 19, 2015

    After canceling the Balance job, performance and responsiveness is back to normal. I have deleted the scheduled defrag, scrub and balance jobs as precaution. 

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