Freenas Middleware Error Volume Creation Failed
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2011 Messages: 9 Thanks Received: 0 Trophy Points: 1 I had this problem since version 8 (tried today with 8.01 RC1) but thought always this was my mainboard (a unable to gpt format the disk VIA VB8001). Today, new hardware (ASRock E350M1) I had the same issue: I am
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unable to create a working zfs volume. First, I have to execute 'sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10' on a root shell, otherwise I get freenas failed to wipe operation not permitted 'Unable to GTP format disk ada0'. After executing that, I can create a ZFS (mirror with 2 disks, WD20EARS), the "use 4k" ckeckbox is checked, of course. All seems fine, I can access the
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volume, write an read data to/from it. But after a reboot, I am not able to access the volume. dmesg says: Code: ada0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0:
going into TrueNAS-9.10.1 Release No Target Version Target - 9.10.1-U1 (All) Target - 9.10.1-U1 (Open) Target - 9.10.1-U1 (RFR) Target - 9.10.1-U2 (All) Target - 9.10.1-U2 (Open) Target - 9.10.1-U3 (All) Target - 9.10.1-U3 (Open) Target - 9.10.2 (All) Target - 9.10.2 (Open)
Unable To Gpt Format The Disk Ada0
Unassigned Unscreened staged for FreeNAS-9.10.1 Bug #364 Problem creating new volume, ZFS or UFS (after
Error: Unable To Gpt Format The Disk "ada2"
deleting volume) Added by evan samett over 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago. Status:ClosedStart date:Priority:ImportantDue date:Assignee:-% Done:0%Category:BackendTarget version:- Seen in: Hardware freenas format disk Configuration: ChangeLog Entry: Description Based upon feedback that a CACHE drive will not help with inadequate RAM I used GUI to delete my 8x2TB ZFS/2 array with 200GB IDE CACHE drive. I then recreated 8x2TB ZFS/2 array https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/unable-to-create-volume.2020/ without CACHE and got an error (not shown) which disappeared after I deleted and re-recreated the array. I then tried to create a single disk ZFS or UFS array with the unused IDE drive. I got same error message - see attached. I tried this several times and rebooted system and failed again. History #1 Updated by evan samett over 5 years ago addendum: i just realize that my zfs/2 array of 8 x 2TB disks https://bugs.pcbsd.org/issues/364 only comes up as 1.2TB online. that's about 10TB short! I am going to try to erase disks some other way...and will report progress. HELP! I am out of ideas from my very little brain. I cannot create a zfs or ufs array larger than 1.8tb even with 8 disks. #2 Updated by evan samett over 5 years ago I looked at all disks with GParted. All 2TB SATA drives showed "unallocated" partition and file system. The smaller IDE drive showed two partitions of unknown type, one 2GB and the other the rest of the "200GB." addendum: each file system descriptor had a "!" by it. I tried to create partition table on all the disks. The operation seems jammed on one of the disks. I succeeded after reboot. I am testing the drive for errors now. It passes the SMART test. I am testing the "funny" drive for errors and threw out the SATA cable. I tried a test array with 6 drives and it seemed to work. I will report any further anomalies on this ticket. Any ideas? Bad cable, Funny corruption by FreeNAS? #3 Updated by evan samett over 5 years ago I was able to get my system working again following the advice of JoeSchmuck. I used GPartEd to redo the partition tables for all the drives. One of the drives init
it out. The system only had 4GB of RAM installed, so I opted to create a UFS volume over a ZFS volume, as the latter requires at least 8GB of RAM according to the system requirements. After some success http://bytesandbolts.com/freenas-disk-error-nightmare/ with getting the UFS volume to play nicely with Time Machine on OS X, I took the plunge and ordered a set of Kingston 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1333Mhz with ECC support for £119.56 at the time of writing, http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-how-to-create-iscsi-storage-disks-freenas-08 the link for Amazon UK can be found here. After the RAM arrived, I installed into the system and destroyed the old UFS volume. Suddenly I was hit with an issue, any subsequent attempts of attempting to create unable to a fresh ZFS volume would result in failure. Several disk wipes, reboots and volume creation attempts later I was left scratching my head. My gut feeling was telling me that FreeNAS was struggling to wipe the disks (Also checking the logs helped). After googling I was able to wipe the disks after entering sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10.. Little did I know this would be the command that would cause my future problems. After the command executed I was able unable to gpt to wipe the disks and create my new ZFS volume. This ran for about 4 weeks perfectly, until I upgraded the system from 9.2.1.5 to 9.2.1.6. After the upgrade the system rebooted and I was suddenly presented with a amber alert status. Also my ZFS volume had disappeared, and dsmeg was spitting out errors about my mirror being corrupt (see below). freenas kernel: GEOM: ada1: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. freenas kernel: GEOM: ada1: using the primary only -- recovery suggested. freenas kernel: GEOM: ada2: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. freenas kernel: GEOM: ada2: using the primary only -- recovery suggested. freenas kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/system launched (2/2). freenas kernel: GEOM: mirror/system: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. freenas kernel: GEOM: mirror/system: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable. After a few hours goggling I determined it wasn't anything with the disks that had failed, whilst numerous forum posts pointed to that. Instead it was linked to how I overcame the issue of wiping the disks whilst attempting to delete my old UFS volume. Turns out I hadn't rebooted the FreeNAS system upon creating the ZFS volume, hence the firmware upgrade had nothing to do with my problems. Instead it was a disk mounting issue that was persistent since the very beginning, I just wasn't aware of it until that moment. I dele
virtual computer as a full fledged network storage. That could be easy for testing and learning purpose at your home or office testing lab. The latest version of FreeNAS is having totally different interface to manage and create iSCSI disks than earlier versions. This guide shows how to create iSCSI storage disks in FreeNAS 0.8 and connect from other hosts.Sysprobs already covered a guide on how to install FreeNAS 0.8 on virtualbox as a virtual machine. This can be used to serve as a iSCSI server for the testing purpose on Network Access Storage (NAS), install Operating Systems in network drives, failover clustering and live migrations etc.Here are the steps to create iSCSI storage disks in FreeNAS 0.81) Download and install FreeNAS as explained in earlier guide.2) You must add the second hard disk (or partition) to use as iSCSI storage disk. I have added one more virtual hard disk to my virtualbox virtual machine.Here we will create two iSCSI disks ( each 4GB) from this 8GB added disk.3) Add the volume as shown below.Storage –> Add Volume –> Provide a volume name –> Select the disk you want to add to Volume pool –> File System.Press Add Volume and make sure its listed in volumes list.For some reasons, my 8GB disk detected as 6.3GB only. So, we can create 2 iSCSI disks with 3GB size.4) If you like you can change the ‘Target Global Base Name’ under iSCSI settings. Otherwise, leave with existing example name. I changed as below.5) Add portal in next step. You can leave the default or provide the IPv4 address of FreeNAS virtual machine. In my case it is 10.10.27.41, so I can add 10.10.27.41:3260 in portal filed, but I left if with default 0 values.6) Add the Authorized Initiator now. You can go with default option ‘ALL’, if more security is required then insert the particular network in Authorized network, like 10.10.27.0/247) Now we need to cre