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Strange Warning: Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free.
I got a strange Warning ofrom my RN102 after upgrading to ReadyNAS 6.6.1. "Volume: Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free." When I browse the sytem via the Web interface I see that I...
On another thread, Netgear said they'd be starting a 6.7.0 beta very soon to roll out AV fixes.
Hi Konuk, is this message in my logs pertaining to the system updating my netgear? "System: ReadyNASOS background service started"
rick_heinig wrote:Hi Konuk, is this message in my logs pertaining to the system updating my netgear? "System: ReadyNASOS background service started"
No my message to Steven was about the Warning Messages (5% Full Volume) after every Virusscan definition update. (Sorry if I caused any confusion.)
After doing some research I found the following:
- The problem described in post#1 occurs only (at least for me) when clamav finds a virus (also a test virus)
- clamav is then creating some files within the /tmp folder
- /tmp should be excluded from scanning according /etc/clamav/clamd.conf, but it seems to fail for recursive directories according 'clamav.conf' man page.
Conclusion. NetGear kindly should review the clamav configuration files and the scanning behaviour.
So, respectfully, what do I need to do? Logs attached back to yesterday's virus update: Note that I did not attach my USB backup last night.
Wed Jan 25 2017 0:05:30 Backup: Error backup job netgear_BU: destination cannot be accessed. Wed Jan 25 2017 0:04:17 Snapshot: Snapshot prune worker successfully deleted snapshot 2016_12_28__00_00_25 from share or LUN Departments. Wed Jan 25 2017 0:00:23 Miscellaneous: Snapshot c_1485320422 was successfully created for share or LUN Departments. Tue Jan 24 2017 17:27:08 Volume: Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity. Tue Jan 24 2017 17:17:06 Volume: Less than 20% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media will degrade if additional capacity is consumed. NETGEAR recommends that you add capacity to avoid performance degradation. Tue Jan 24 2017 14:17:30 Volume: Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity. Tue Jan 24 2017 10:27:14 Volume: Less than 10% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity. Tue Jan 24 2017 10:17:10 Volume: Less than 30% of volume media's capacity is free. NETGEAR recommends that you add capacity to maintain current performance levels. Continuous protection snapshots will be deleted when volume free space is less than 5%. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:59:20 System: ReadyNASOS background service started. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:59:16 System: ReadyNASOS service or process was restarted. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:35:56 System: Antivirus scanner definition file was updated to 57.22941. I can confirm both phenomenons on a NAS 204 after upgrading to 6.6.1
- volume utilization wanrings despite enough free space
- tons and tons of Antivirus messages dues to "broken heuristics" in a handful of files. As I use the NAS as backup container I herebey officially declare that I am not willing to delete vmlinuz-, GRUB and EFI-files :-)
The problem of AVG making false positives is already quite old and can be resolved. Would Netgear please make a quick patch as I guess the volume warnings come from staged AV files filling up a (usually hidden) volume. And I am not willing to invest time in fumbling around in the firmware.
Just my 2 cents and a deep sigh of hope
Fridu
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