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ReadyNAS 3220 - Remove inactive volumes to use the disk - disks 1-12
Sometime within the last few weeks, when I logon to the web interface, I see an error message stating "remove inactive volumes to use the disk - disks 1 - 12. the ReadyNAS 3220 is a 12 disk NAS setup as 1 volume.
I just recently updated to firmware level 6.10.4 and rebooted which was successful. I don't recall if I logged on immediately after the firmware update.
Below are pictures of the System and Volume pages. I've downloaded the log files and can send them at any time.
Unfortunately, The previous IT staff didn't make any backups of this NAS.
I've tried power-cycling it numerous times (included removing the power cords), but that hasn't helped.
You disks and raid are healthy. The reason for the cryptic "Remove inactive volumes message" is due to the filesystem not being able to mount. We we can see below, it seems there is some corrupt leafs in the root tree when it tries to mount.
The logs still show me good information about your filesystem and I can see you have used about 8 TiB. So, it is good that the NAS can retrieve this metadata information.
Label: '33ea851f:data' uuid: 13562dc5-4c5e-479e-b09d-5e07a2154623
Total devices 2 FS bytes used 8.38TiB
devid 1 size 9.07TiB used 6.36TiB path /dev/md127
devid 2 size 5.46TiB used 2.78TiB path /dev/md126
I think a simple mount of the volume with recovery option (mounting as read-only) might solve this.
mount -v -o ro,recovery /dev/md127 /data
If that does not work, then a BTRFS restore is probably the way to go, at least to get a backup done but it requires some place where you can dump the data to. A filesystem repair job can also be attempted but the prio should be taking a backup first. The BTRFS filesystem repair job can potentially make it worse.
None of the above are things to be attempted over a user forum. I would suggest to contact Netgear support and get some paid support to have their Level 3 look at this. My feeling is that this is recoverable but you need people who knows about the BTRFS filesystem. So, Netgear paid support is the best option here, in my opinion.
Sometime within the last few weeks, when I logon to the web interface, I see an error message stating "remove inactive volumes to use the disk - disks 1 - 12. the ReadyNAS 3220 is a 12 disk NAS setup as 1 volume.
The best option is to use paid Netgear support to resolve this (via my.netgear.com). The mods ( @JohnCM_S and @Marc_V ) can assist you to make sure you get the right support package. Per-incident support might be enough, and would be cheapest.
FWIW, simply updating firmware won't create this problem. But sometimes there is an underlying issue that presents itself when you reboot. And the firmware update does require that.
Throw the logs over to me and I can have a look. System > Logs > Downlaod Logs. It will give you a zip file with the NAS logs. Upload this zip file to a Google Drive, Dopbox or similar and PM me the link.
Then I will see what is going on. But this is not caused by a firmware update. There is another underlying problem.
You disks and raid are healthy. The reason for the cryptic "Remove inactive volumes message" is due to the filesystem not being able to mount. We we can see below, it seems there is some corrupt leafs in the root tree when it tries to mount.
The logs still show me good information about your filesystem and I can see you have used about 8 TiB. So, it is good that the NAS can retrieve this metadata information.
Label: '33ea851f:data' uuid: 13562dc5-4c5e-479e-b09d-5e07a2154623
Total devices 2 FS bytes used 8.38TiB
devid 1 size 9.07TiB used 6.36TiB path /dev/md127
devid 2 size 5.46TiB used 2.78TiB path /dev/md126
I think a simple mount of the volume with recovery option (mounting as read-only) might solve this.
mount -v -o ro,recovery /dev/md127 /data
If that does not work, then a BTRFS restore is probably the way to go, at least to get a backup done but it requires some place where you can dump the data to. A filesystem repair job can also be attempted but the prio should be taking a backup first. The BTRFS filesystem repair job can potentially make it worse.
None of the above are things to be attempted over a user forum. I would suggest to contact Netgear support and get some paid support to have their Level 3 look at this. My feeling is that this is recoverable but you need people who knows about the BTRFS filesystem. So, Netgear paid support is the best option here, in my opinion.
