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dinger76
Aspirant
Jun 16, 2016

ReadyNAS 2120 Crashing Regularly v6.50

We implemented a ReadyNAS 2120 v2 a short while ago and have been experiencing numerous issues with the system crashing.  The device is being used purely for NFS communication to VMware as a Veeam ba...
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dinger76
Aspirant
Jun 16, 2016

I hadn't taken a look but I have just done so now.  The system.log shows no errors before the crash and just a couple of warnings after the device was rebooted.  The kernel.log only shows items from each time it is rebooted.

I've discovered an article earlier that mentions about enabling 'Async' for NFS, I've therefore done this and disabled completely any other shares that were on the device.  I'm not sure whether this will make a difference but its worth a try... unfortunately I may only find out in a weeks time if it has worked or not.

 

NFS Async Enable

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14765/~/how-to-enable-async-mode-in-readynas-os-6-for-improved-nfs-performance

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 16, 2016

The power schedule failed with 6.5?  Or was that a previous release?

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    dinger76
    Aspirant
    Jun 16, 2016

    The power schedule failed with the previous version... I haven't tried it with the new version but I felt like it would be a bit of a workaround rather than a fix anyway

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      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jun 16, 2016

      You might need netgear support for this.

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