Tuesday, March 24, 2015

NAS4Free Upgrade to 9.3.0.2.1349

I was running the previous version for more than a year and was happy about it.  But the itch for change was there.  The release page warns about the need to reinstall things from scratch which I did.
  • Saved current configuration
  • Used Win32 Disk Imager to burn live USB image to a small 1GB USB flash disk.  
  • I booted from the flash disk and chose a very first option to install the embedded version to a compact flash card sitting in a parallel IDE connector.
  • Set IP to a static 192.168.1.10
  • Booted the NAS and restored configuration using Web GUI.
  • NAS rebooted.
Here are some bumps I have so far:
  • While moving the NAS box (I used the opportunity to open it up and dust things off) I reconnected UPS USB cord to a different port.  Now UPS is not recognized - I have
         ERROR: Data stale!
    That is NOT helpful.  Replugging the cord and restarting the UPS service addressed this.
  • I noticed I am actually overclocking the CPU and instead of 1.8GHz run it at 2.6GHz!  Yet the Web GUI reports CPU as running at 1.8GHz.  No biggie, just something to keep in mind.
     
  • Most troublesome!  I now have a warning:
    
      pool: tank
     state: ONLINE
    status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size.
     Expect reduced performance.
    action: Replace affected devices with devices that support the
     configured block size, or migrate data to a properly configured
     pool.
    config:
    
     NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
     tank        ONLINE       0     0     0
       mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
         da3     ONLINE       0     0     0  block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
         da0     ONLINE       0     0     0  block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
    

    I am confident this was not there before the upgrade. These are Seagate NAS drives: ST4000VN000-1H4168.
Something to consider for future use after I upgrade all clients to Windows 10 -  in Services|CIFS/SMB|Settings change Max Protocol to SMB3.  Here is a relevant read.

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