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    Working DSM 6

    in Loaders

    Posted

    or we dump synology put all our heads together and come up with our own open source nas which will be better than theirs.... #epicpoll

    You already have plenty of free NAS software to choose from :wink:

    The only thing I really love about Synology/Xpenology is the ability to scale the volume when necessary (even though this is still somewhat buggy). Home directories, the web UI and LUN-support are all really great features. The only thing that's coming close is unRAID, but it lacks features like home directories and LUNs.

    Xpenology with 12 drives volume crashing

    in Archives

    Posted

    Can you do another test by re-building again with all 12 drives at a time?

    You mean start from scratch? Would love to, but I only have one HBA card and that's currently in use... I'll look into it and see if I can get a new rig for testing.

    In the meantime I hope more people are able to share their thoughts on this and help me test. :smile:

    Xpenology with 12 drives volume crashing

    in Archives

    Posted · Edited by Guest

    This post is based on ferno's Don't fill all 12 Bays! thread.

     

    This post targets all users who have filled all 12 drives and experience issues with XPenology in terms of volume corruption. I know that a lot of people do not have this issue, but I'm certain that there is a major bug in the current version of XPenology we need to solve.

     

    How to reproduce the issue:

    1. Create a new VM in ESXi

    Configuration used: ESXi 6.0, 8GB RAM, lsi sas 9201-16i in passthrough

    2. Fill all 12 drives and wait for XPenology to rebuild

    I've personally started with 10 drives and then expanded to 12

    3. Run a data scrub or simply stress the volume and it should happen within a short periode of time < 1 day

    It happened once the rebuild was done and started running the data scrub

     

     

    I have no idea why this happens. the configuration file seems fine and it's happening on vanilla Xpenology. I know that a lot of you don't have this issue, so it may not be a issue on bare metal at all, but if you do please let me know in this thread! hope to be able to rule out a few thing by requesting the following information from you who experience the same issue (here with my current info). My best guess is that this has something to do with SHR or disk groups...

     

    XPenology version: XPEnoboot 5.2-5967.1

    Virtualization: Yes, ESXi 6.0 Update 2, VM version: 11

    RAID controller: LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA (latest IT firmware)

    Disk group or single volume: Single volume and no disk group

    RAID type: SHR 2

    PSU: Corsair TX750M (750 W)

    Short description: Volume crashed when expanding from 10 to 12 drives. Volume started throwing disks out of the array and suddenly about half of the drives where missing. Data was still readable, but volume marked as crashed and set to read-only.

    Don't fill all 12 Bays!

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I'm experiencing the same issue. I've been using XPenology without issues for many month. Using ESXI 6 with LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA in passthrough mode. Once I've added disk #12, expanded and then ran a scrub the volume crashed. It's a complete mayhem. No issue yet on what causes this, but I'll look into it (or not use more then 12 drives anymore).

    BUILD Approval

    in Archives

    Posted

    I can also recommend using ESXi:

    I use multiple VMs since not every package is running smoothly (or with best performance) on Xpenology. Plex requires a lot when transcoding multiple streams and offers better performance on it's own VM. I also moved transmission and other services out to their own virtual machines due to better performance and a lot more features. :smile:

    Any schedule for just released 6.0-7321-1?

    in Archives

    Posted

    Before the devs can begin looking at DSM 6, they depend on the tool chain to be released here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/files/

    Subscribe to that page and you'll be notified when it's updated. Before that there won't be a DSM 6 compatible boot image.

    DSM 6 beta 2 tool chain released, is it helpful?

    No, they will and should definitely wait for the full release. Besides, DSM 6 has still a lot of issues with third party packages according to Synocommunity.

    Extracting SHR?

    in Archives

    Posted

    Synology makes it simple to manage your drives and volumes, but if you want you can switch to Ubuntu or another Linux distro. SHR is basically mdadm + LVM so if you google that you should find some guide that helps you to configure it on any Linux distro. :smile:

    DSM's GUI, how is it coded?

    in Archives

    Posted

    Nice looks is all about CSS once you have a proper structured HTML page. I'm developing PoS systems (and other) and there are no benefits of trying to reuse code from Synology. Spend the time more wisely and learn a framework that's ment to be copied, modified and looks good out of the box such as Bootstrap. There are a lot of styles available too, that way you get clean, easy to read code with minimal effort. :smile:

     

    More info: http://getbootstrap.com/

    Backup / Sync on XPEnology

    in Archives

    Posted

    Hmm, but as I read, if you don't have subscription, you can only make daily backups not continuous. Is that true?

     

    And I wish they would finally drop Java. It's been more than 2 years that they promised native apps. :-|

    I agree on the Java issue. I have to verify that statement about daily backups, but I doubt that.

    Backup / Sync on XPEnology

    in Archives

    Posted

    I recommend CrashPlan if you want to backup from a computer to your NAS or from a NAS the cloud. It's cheap, secure and without limitations.

    You are using CrashPlan to backup to NAS? I was thinking about doing that, but there are some limitations if you dont have subscritpion, aren't there?

     

    Without a subscription you will be able to backup to "friends" or in order words.. you can install CrashPlan on your computer and tell it to sync files to your NAS (you have to install CrashPlan there as well). You only have to pay for a subscription if you want off-site backup and upload all data to CrashPlan's server (CrashPlan Central).

     

    I currently have the "Individual Plan" with my NAS uploading data to CrashPlan Central. All clients, both on my network and outside of my home are using the "Upload to friends" feature to backup to my NAS for free. It's awesome! :smile:

     

    My guide: https://idmedia.no/projects/xpenology/h ... -synology/

    Video: https://idmedia.no/projects/xpenology/v ... -synology/

    Any plans for SRM?

    in Archives

    Posted

    Going to pickup their router next month ^_^. Will post a review on xpenology.us

    I'm also looking forward to it. I thought about picking up one myself, but settled on Asus RT-AC3200 instead. I just love it's OpenVPN server and the ability to choose between TUN and TAP. :smile:

    Make a tutorial for valid serial and mac?

    in Archives

    Posted

    As far as I know HA also requires a valid mac/serial pair, but I'm not using it myself. I think I also noticed other issues, but can't remember at the moment. I can agree on ethical issue and as long as you easily can use your own domain or DDNS I don't see any reason for using Synology's service.

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