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mangrove
Apr 09, 2017Apprentice
Something seems broken with iSCSI since 6.7.0
Upgraded from 6.6.1 stable to 6.7.0 stable yesterday. Since then I can no longer mount my TrueCrypt containers residing on Readynas iSCSI volumes. Or, they mount after several minutes, but I can no l...
Skywalker
Apr 12, 2017NETGEAR Expert
What is your initiator?
I see a steady stream of messages about the initiator sending FUA requests, but the iSCSI target is configured to claim no support for FUA. I assume your Sync Writes setting is set to Disabled? Can you try changing it to Allowed?
mangrove
Apr 12, 2017Apprentice
Microsoft initiator (on Windows 7 64-bit).
Interestingly, with sync writes enabled, I can now mount the volume again. Thanks for that!
Doesn't solve the space free problem though :catsad: and that clearly happened when upgrading the firmware. Is it risk free in this situation to try rebalancing (from the UI)?
- mdgm-ntgrApr 12, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Your status.log shows your volume being over 95% full as far back as April 2016. It's not an issue caused by the upgrade.
Balancing shouldn't be attempted on a volume that full. That's not the solution. For optimal performance you should consider expanding your data volume (after updating your regular backup, of course). - SkywalkerApr 13, 2017NETGEAR Expert
Is there anything in particular this iSCSI volume is doing? We tried to reproduce the issue, but only got a single FUA write request during mount time, and none after that.
- mangroveMay 07, 2017Apprentice
> Your status.log shows your volume being over 95% full as far back as April 2016. It's not an issue caused by the upgrade.
Whatever. As stated before, the volume has been created using Netgear recommendations, and never used for anything but this iSCSI volume.
> Is there anything in particular this iSCSI volume is doing?
No, its only purpose is to host a TrueCrypt volume. Sync Writes has been off for performance reasons for a long time.
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