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Balancing Volumes makes drives unusable
I started a balance on my ReadyNas 10200 a couple of days ago thinking it would not take long, but it has become unusable since and I would just like to abort the whole process. I have a 2TB and 4TB ...
Once you get ssh running, you can cancel the balance using the info here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-in-Business/ssh-command-to-stop-balance/td-p/994979
Are you running 6.4.0? If so, I'd upgrade to 6.4.1 and restart after you cancel it. The NAS should then remain usable during the balance.
You can't shift the 4 TB drive to a PC, it doesn't support the BTRFS file system. The best option there is to get another 4 TB drive, and replace the 2 TB one.
Another choice is to backup the NAS, switch to flexraid and destroy the current volume. You can then remove one of the drives, or create 2 volumes (one on each).
Thanks for your reply. I was able to turn on SSH and cancel the blance. So relieved!
I will get another 4TB soon. Is my best option to make a backup and then put them in raid 0 or JBOD as I'm only interested in the actual capacity rather than having redundancy.
Thanks heaps for your response!
_Orion wrote:
I will get another 4TB soon. Is my best option to make a backup and then put them in raid 0 or JBOD as I'm only interested in the actual capacity rather than having redundancy.
jbod is better. With RAID-0 you lose everything if either disk fails. With jbod, you only lose what was on the failed disk.
Okay, thanks Stephen.
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