On 31/03/2014 12:06 pm, James Harper wrote: > We have a few Netgear ReadyNAS 104's, and they all crash under high iscsi > load. They are being used to hold backups from a windows server, and the one > I've been working on rarely gets through a single overnight backup. > > I have ssh'd in and it seems that the iscsi backing store is a file sitting > on a btrfs mount. The kernel is 3.0.101, which strikes me as a little old for > running btrfs although I guess being an appliance they could well have > backported everything from a newer more stable release. Or not, going on how > much crashing it's doing. > > I was planning on using netconsole to see if I could capture its dying gasp, > but it's not compiled in and not built as a module. > > A warranty claim is the obvious answer, but that's always a pain so I'm > wondering if it's possible to work around the problem by tweaking some things. > > Netgear are aware of the problem, and have asked things like how full is it > getting so I guess they know about the btrfs limitations relating to running > out of space. So far the only solution they have offered is to try the latest > beta kernel and do yet another factory reset, which we've done. > Hi James
I assume you have tried the version 6.1.6 ? (http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24560/~/readynas-os-version-6.1.6) they talk about a crash issue with high load while using iscsi. Mike _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
