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Ready Nas 516 drive sleep issues with readynasd
Hi Im a new Readynas user, just as they are retired and because my work decided to throw the 516 unit out with 5x 2TB drives included because they didn’t have the required support going forward. It...
You shouldn't be needing such heroic measures. Can you confirm you are running 6.10.8? ("latest" isn't that helpful).
My own NAS (an rn526) is set to sleep, but generally still spins up every 30-60 minutes during off-hours. But I have an always-on PCs with the volume mapped to a drive letter, and some applications on that PC can and do access the volume at any time.
You might want to enable block_dump, as described here:
There is a very old thread where the conclusion was that disabling ipv6 on the NAS resolved this issue.
While I'd hope that the underlying cause would have been fixed by now, I think it is worth a disabling ipv6 on the NAS as a test.
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Yes it’s 10.6.8. I have to fire up the service again to check versions.
I have disabled ipv6 just now and enabled block dump, will let it settle a little and see what it’s like later this afternoon. If all of this was just ipv6 then it will be slightly annoying but I think I have nicely tuned the disc usage down for what will be a system that spends most off its time completely idle in my case.
Thanks- Disabling ipv6 on both nics made no difference and additional logging only shows enclosure monitor repeatedly dirtying and writing nodes which is nothing new from my findings with iotop. I still don’t know which files it’s hitting to move to cache though.
Although I have now taken the alternate route and setup msmtprc and mdadm to email and shutdown on failure and will use the nas without readynasd or apache2 or samba which are the biggest culprits, although it does reduce the attack surface given I can’t really update the Debian base here.
Or could I update Debian if I am not using more and more of Netgear software here?
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