OS6 now works on x86 Legacy WARNING: NO NTGR SUPPORT!

Hi,

I also have switched to OS6 yesterday. Works pretty nice so far.

All my data were backuped on a 3TB volume that wasnt installed while upgrade.
After upgrade the installed 2TB volume shows Raid (JBOD). I thought its kind of Raid 0. I turned X-RAID off. I thought now its kind of Raid 0 on a single drive. I backuped all data back from 3TB to the 2TB volume and then installed the 3TB volume.

On webinterface I expanded the volume. All my data are still there but now I have a single volume with ~5TB (JBOD) but i wanted 2 volumes with each 2TB and 3TB.

Can I go back from JBOD somehow and then setup a 2 volume RAID 0?
I don't have another backup possibility. So what do I have to do?

Thank you!

Pommes what you needed to do was to create a new RAID-0 volume using the disk you added not expand the existing volume.

You will need to backup your data, delete the volume, create new volumes and restore your data from backup.

mdgm wrote:
Pommes what you needed to do was to create a new RAID-0 volume using the disk you added not expand the existing volume. You will need to backup your data, delete the volume, create new volumes and restore your data from backup.

Okay, I already thought this is the only way.

I have some questions concerning OS6.
1. Is there a way to set the hard drive to sleep (energy saving)?
2. Is there a way to format an external hard drive / USB-stick?
3. Where are the options for write caching on os6 (for USB-drives)?
4. Do I have to update to newer version manually / is it save to update?
5. What happens if i register my Ultra 2 with OS6?

Thank you

1. No, disk spin-down has not been added yet. You can however user a power off/on schedule or WOL
2. You can do this via SSH, but not via the GUI at this time.
3. Not sure if there is.
4. You can do a local update or you can do a remote update (you should be automatically prompted to do a remote update when you open the Dashboard). It is safe to update. Updates usually work fine, though it is advisable to have a backup just in case (you should have this anyway, but even more so since the new OS is unsupported on legacy hardware)
5. If your system had already been registered with the old OS, I think the NetGear system would recognise that it is already registered and not let you register it again. The prompt to register should hopefully go away then.

Thank you for your reply.

Currently I am wondering why my harddisc has so much write operations altough I dont do anything wtih the NAS.
Also the graph in frontview (is it still called frontview?) and my ears recognizes it. Every few seconds (~3sec) there are some IO operations.

Is there a way to list drive IO by processes?
Already tried to install iotop but the kernel does not match requirements.


Thank you!

Okay I probably found now the reason why the hard-drive has so many IO operations the whole time.

root@HomeNas:~/test# find / -mmin -0.01  \! -path '/proc/*'
/sys/kernel/config/target/core/alua/lu_gps/default_lu_gp/members
/sys/kernel/config/target/core/alua/lu_gps/default_lu_gp/lu_gp_id
/sys/kernel/config/target/version
/var/readynasd
/var/readynasd/db.sq3
/var/readynasd/db.sq3-journal

Whenever db.sq3 gets an update, the hard drive is working for ~2sec.
The update happens every 5-10 sec I guess.

My opinion: that happens to often.
Is there anything I can do?

I wonder how well this bungled code was fixed in the later releases: viewtopic.php?p=401302#p401302

chirpa wrote:
I wonder how well this bungled code was fixed in the later releases: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=401302#p401302

I can't speak for all OS6 configurations cause I have all that fancy cloud stuff disabled and uninstalled, but in 6.1.2 i am seeing very healthy amount of wakeup activity underlined in that thread, several per second instead of thousand+.
You can easily see it with

vmstat 1

watch "cs" column in light activity system and it is sub hundred when it used to be thousand+.

Overall I am very happy with 6.1.2 on Ultra4 :)

fream wrote:

As I understand it you are using it on (at least) one 6 Pro. Any issues? What version of OS6 are you running? I have just bought a ReadyNAS 6 Pro and was thinking of starting fresh on OS6 since it adds features and BTRFS as underlying file system. I would use the Pro 6 for: * for file share (mostly Mac) * ReadyNAS remote app on iOS * Plex * DLNA to my TV's * Time Machine backups * WebDAV file access Any input on features, functionality that is missing etc. would be greatly appreciated!

So doing a follow-up on my own post. I've received my Pro 6 and now upgraded it to 6.1.2 and it works great!

I've installed 2*1,5TB and 2*2TB and running it as one big volume (shows as RAID 5 with X-RAID). The sync of discs took a long time but during that time I had no problem copying data to it with speeds ranging from 80-100 MB/s (on gigabit network from a Mac Pro using AFP).
I am using RN Remote from the iPhone and it works. Next step might be to try the RN Remote Mac client from my MB Air when not at home.
Time machine also works good from the Air when at home.

Plex works! I did some mistake when trying to upgrade/install the 0.9.8-version from plexapp.com so now I have reverted to 0.9.7 that came with OS6 6.1.2, there is some issues with managing App from the ReadyNAS Web Interface (getting error when trying to start it, getting error when trying to update to a new version that it show is available even though I am using the latest available from NetGear) so I have to start Plex manually using SSH... I cannot figure out how to make it fully working in the ReadyNAS web interface. Not a problem since Plex starts and work and also the web interface for Plex works (port 32400). But it would be nice to be able to have the latest Plex version and that it works correctly in ReadyNAS web interface.

Some issues and comments.

Fan noise
This was an issue for me. The fans was running max all the time. After installing lm-sensors and fancontrol (apt-get) the fan start to behave more normal. Still showing as 5355 rpm in the web interface though... The detailed temperature graph is not working either (it show 0 degree). The overview show temperature for Aux, CPU, Systems and the disk but I don't know if I can trust the numbers. The fan keeps changing rpm all the time which is somewhat annoying but I plan to put the NAS somewhere where it wont matter.

Missing things
I am missing the disk spin down feature that was in OS4 but does not exist in OS6. Hope that comes in a future firmware update.
I also miss that there is no WebDAV support in OS6 so for the time being I guess I will be using RN Remote App from the Mac when not at home.

Future stuff
I plan on testing to activate Jumbo frames to see if I can get better performance. And also to get a better network switch to be able to use network bonding (on both the Pro6 and the Mac Pro) to see if I can get better throughput.
I also plan on maybe setting up iSCSI and move some of my Aperture libraries to the NAS. That requires to buy a iSCSI-driver for OSX though...

So far a very happy upgrade and purchase! Looking forward to any feedback on the above and also new features in the coming releases of OS6!

fream wrote:
Missing things I also miss that there is no WebDAV support in OS6 so for the time being I guess I will be using RN Remote App from the Mac when not at home.

WebDAV is already there in 6.1.x. If you click the Settings option on your share, enable HTTP under Network Access. You should see a WEBDAV section on the left, under SECURITY and HOSTS.