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RN104 degraded, but no prorgess
Hi all. I am using my RN104 as a backup device sonce a very, very long time w/o any issues... Cool thing, not high performance, but good it works :-). I changed in my RN104 one of the 4 harddriv...
I agree it doesn't look like it's expanding. First, make sure a 4th partition was created: fdisk -l /dev/sdd. You can also compare the size of the 4th partition to another drive's: fdisk -l /dev/sdc. If the partition is there and the right size, then the following should add it or give you an error message as to why it won't: mdadm /dev/md127 --add /dev/sdd4 --verbose.
If the partition isn't there, don't try to use fdisk to create it, it'll refuse to start it in the right place. I recommend you install and use parted for that.
The array is degraded because you replaced a drive. It will remain degraded until the resync completes.
"Degraded" means that there is no RAID redundancy, so if one of the original disks fails the volume will be lost.
XAffi wrote:
2x WD60EFAX;
The WD60EFAX drives use SMR technology. Several folks here have found they misbehave in OS-6 ReadyNAS. SMR drives have variable write speeds (sustained writes can result in glacial speeds).
Generally I don't recommend them for any NAS - not saying you should replace them, but I do suggest keeping an eye out for problems.
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