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Frontview shows ReadyNAS NVX as dead, but everything works fine.
Hiya. I have a ReadyNAS NVX with 4x 3TB Seagate disks. It has been chugging along for years without any issues. After a power outage a few days ago, Frontview shows the volume as a yellow bli...
Starlionblue3 wrote:
Not a huge amount but some. Can I delete everything in tmp and var/log?...
You should be able to delete everything in /tmp. Not so sure about /var/log. Some of those files are probably open (in which case the system won't let you delete them). I think the others will likely be recreated.
I think there must be a folder that has a lot of extraneous files in it - the trick is finding it. If you ever used ReadyDLNA, also look in /var/cache/minidlna
find . -mindepth 1 -mount | wc -l
will count all the files in the current folder and its subfolders.
Try it in /var /usr /lib /etc ... and see if you can find the folder.
...Every delete seems to give me a measly 1 extra inode free...
Yes
Not a huge amount but some. Can I delete everything in tmp and var/log? Every delete seems to give me a measly 1 extra inode free...
Starlionblue3 wrote:
Not a huge amount but some. Can I delete everything in tmp and var/log?...
You should be able to delete everything in /tmp. Not so sure about /var/log. Some of those files are probably open (in which case the system won't let you delete them). I think the others will likely be recreated.
I think there must be a folder that has a lot of extraneous files in it - the trick is finding it. If you ever used ReadyDLNA, also look in /var/cache/minidlna
find . -mindepth 1 -mount | wc -l
will count all the files in the current folder and its subfolders.
Try it in /var /usr /lib /etc ... and see if you can find the folder.
...Every delete seems to give me a measly 1 extra inode free...
Yes
See the results below. The problem is in var/cache/minidlna, and more specifically in var/cache/MiniDLNA as you said might be the case.
I have a folder called "ImagesByName" that contains a large amount of picture files. Seems MiniDLNA is caching all these... I recently did a huge cleanup of these files and then had a program recreate them afresh. Which coincides with the time Frontview started misbehaving.
I changed what ReadyDLNA in Frontview scans to exclude this directory. The inode count immediately went way down, and reboot of the ReadyNAS has Frontview working correctly again. Whooo!
I can't thank you enough. Fantastic. :)
To be honest this kind of thing should at least generate an error message in Frontview. I imagine plenty of users use ReadyDLNA and have tons of files.
Before:
Atlas:/var/cache/minidlna# find . -mindepth 1 -mount | wc -l
56568
Atlas:/var/cache/minidlna/art_cache/c/Stuff/ImagesByName# find . -mindepth 1 -mount | wc -l30972
After:
Atlas:~# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/md0 65536 13970 51566 22% /I'm glad we found it.
There is an add-on you should install which will move the cache to the C volume. That will prevent the problem from recurring.
Here are the add-ons to Toggle the ReadyDLNA CacheDir for x86 and SPARC:
Skywalker wrote:
x86: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons/x86/4.2/Toggle_ReadyDLNA_CacheDir_1.0-x86.bin
SPARC: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons/4.1/Toggle_ReadyDLNA_CacheDir_1.0.binThis is a "toggle", so if you install it a second time it will move the cache back.
Only have 27% Inodes used after the rescan, so plenty of space, but did this anyway. 21% after the install. Thanks for that.
I'm getting the impression that the ReadyNAS shares respond much faster now, with much quicker folder listings in Windows Explorer. Is that a probable side effect?
Starlionblue3 wrote:
I'm getting the impression that the ReadyNAS shares respond much faster now, with much quicker folder listings in Windows Explorer. Is that a probable side effect?
It seems likely that there would be performance degradation.
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