Problem with fvdw-sl 16

[mgcomp]

Hi,

I'm Giovanni from Italy, recently upgraded a Big2NASvs1 to fvdw-sl 16, patched to the last patches, but encountered some problems:

root@Tittiu-NAS:/ # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb8
mke2fs 1.42.11 (09-Jul-2014)
/dev/sdb8 contains a ext3 file system
last mounted on Mon Dec 14 21:47:13 2015
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Creating filesystem with 243370693 4k blocks and 60850176 inodes
Filesystem UUID: ae63d523-e0b1-47ec-b6a1-baf317af6bb8
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

root@Tittiu-NAS:/ #
root@Tittiu-NAS:/ #
root@Tittiu-NAS:/ #
root@Tittiu-NAS:/ # mount /dev/sdb8 /share/1001
root@Tittiu-NAS:/ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 226.2M 154.4M 59.2M 72% /
/dev/sda1 226.2M 154.4M 59.2M 72% /
/dev/sda5 786.9M 1.2M 777.5M 0% /rw_fs
tmpfs 4.9M 196.0K 4.7M 4% /rw_fs/tmp/usr/var
/dev/sda8 913.7G 75.1M 904.3G 0% /share/1000
/dev/root 226.2M 167.9M 45.8M 79% /lacie-boot
/dev/sdb8 913.7G 71.8M 867.2G 0% /share/1001

When freshly formatted 2nd disk I see 50GB of used space....!!!!

Another error, when I try to put a big file in it, I receive a transfer error, over samba and ftp...

What I have to do? I don't want to revert to stock lacie firmware, cause the lack of some feature that I want to use.

Please Help me!!!

Thanks!

[fvdw]

Hi, which features do you miss?

If you use the mke2fs as you did without the proper options then it will reserve 5% of the disk for super user, it is not an error it is the consequence of the command you used.

How big was the file you want to transfer and what operating sytem do you use on your pc. I teansfer regurlary files bigger then 10 GB without issue, must be sometnhing in your lan. For instance if you use Wifi a disturbance in the signal can cause this.

Installing lacie stock firmware, you need to search imternet there are several guides

[mgcomp]

OK, my mistake for the 5% reserved...

But for the file tranfer I have tested with 2 pc, same appens, files of approx 1,5GB, transfer stop randomly past 100MB or 200MB or 300MB, via ftp and via smb.

Nas connected with a new allnet 8 ports gigabit switch.

What can I try to solve the issue?

Please reply.

Thanks!

[fvdw]

are you using fvdw-sl 16-1 (and not 16-0) ?

I have seen a similar problem on 5big1 , there the use of sendfile as option in the samba server was the cause.
Seems you are familiar with linux therefor attached file to see of disabling sendfile solve your problem

Replace the file in system directory /etc/finc/smbfunc_conf_commit.finc by the one in the zip archive attached and reboot the nas

[mgcomp]

Thanks for reply,

It seems not related to the samba server, because I get the transfer aborted in ftp too...

I am on version 16-0, because have not finded the 16-1 upgrade...

[Jocko]

Hi mgcomp,

No sendfile is a system call for streaming data transfer between the disk and the tcp socket. so ftp or samba may use it.

To install 16.1, just download these files viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2313#p20332

[mgcomp]

Upgraded, the problem still persist...

In ftp upload with total commander I get the 451 error code, Input/output error...

Tried active and passiv mode transfer

Tried Gigabit / 100Mbit excluding switch

Tried pc to nas directly connected

Still in the problem...

The 2 disks are brand new, western digital RED Nas Edition

What can I do?

[mgcomp]

If you want I can give ssh access to the nas...

Tell me if you want...

[Jocko]

Well, please to give more details!!!

"Upgraded, the problem still persist..." means :
- you installed version 16.1
- you installed version 16.1 and also the file posted by fvdw
- you just installed the file posted by fvdw with version 16.0 :disapprove

You can easily disable sendfile on ftp server :
- create an additional conf file (eg myftp.conf) stored in a share (I assume in the share fvdw) with this line

Code: Select all

UseSendfile off

- select this conf file in the ftp setup menu (tab 'other settings')
- save your change

Then you can check if it is also fixed on the ftp server side.

Note: sendfile support issue is just a compatibility problem between the platform and the kernel : no need to try some changes on Lan settings; disks; ...

[mgcomp]

Sorry...

Version 16-1 now with all patches

sendfile disabled on samba and ftp too.

Problem persist, tell me if I can do some other things to explain...