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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 ...
I haven't enabled disk quotas for our shares, and after all the issues I came across after the update I doubt I ever will.
I only updated for the option to see just how much space was being consumed by snapshots, which to my surprise was a lot. I had 3.5TB worth of snaphost and only 1.7TB of actual data, so that helped me clear quite a bit of space. Also, the shares now show how much space they're consuming, which is also nice.
Clearing the scheduled balance job brought the performance to normal again, and disabling snaphots has actually improved it a bit. It is now more responsive than before, at least the frontview and file browsing are.
I don't have many apps running apart from Anti Virus, just the SMB prefs panel and ReadyNAS Surveillance recording from 9 IP cameras (total bandwith for all of them is 12,030 Kbps so that should never put a load on the CPU. My guess is that someone screwed up in the implementation of the Balance, Quota and Sync features.
I'm not a Linux expert, but I don't mind learning and using the terminal to check up on things. The web ui can only get you so far.
On the 104, I have no issue with the OS 6.4.0 so far it works fine. This time with anti virus active but bit rot disabled.
The 204 so far had one hang (I have to pull the power plug), and I think that it was during a defrag. (Anti-virus active but no bit-rot)
And this morning I found it blinking. It did now want to power down, so I also ahd to pull the plug. When it restarted I saw that it was in a degraded state and had to resync. Itr Resynced and all drives operate normally. So whatever it was, it definately is not the hardware.
I have the impression that the issues happens after you transferred lots of data on that drive. No hangs when no big data has been added/removed or moved.
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