Hello all, Possible bug I’ve run into with dragonfish that I can’t seem to wrap my head around. TrueNAS suddenly started acting unusually slow, to the point where logging into the UI was taking about 5 minutes. The VM I had been working in had completely frozen - and I thought some odd issue had c…

Okay, interesting. There was a spike of network and disk activity at around 16:50 (for reference I noticed this at around 16:58) - this brought context switches above 200,000 and interrupts to 65,00!!! That explains that part then, I know exactly what caused that and it’s a easy fix (I’d actually …

Pulled the drive out to check it, and it’s completely empty! Not a thing on it! Bizarre. CrystalDiskInfo seems to know what a lot of these unknown attributes are and there isn’t anything out of the ordinary. I’ve detached the missing drive from the boot-pool, so am going to reconnect this drive an…

Physically removing the drive, detaching it from the pool, and then adding it back again worked. After this point I also no longer saw the “Failed to check for alert HadUpdate” alert on boot. Still absolutely no idea what caused it.

Hit it again - albeit without knocking my boot drive out and a breakthrough has been had. I’m swapping a hell of a lot more than I should be (that’d be the writes I was seeing to my boot-pool as mentioned in a previous post), and I can see a lot of related threads with similar issues of slowness (th…

The curious case of the extra drive - Boot drive appearing as unassigned in TrueNAS UI

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Protopia May 3, 2024, 9:11pm 4

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The curious case of the extra drive - Boot drive appearing as unassigned in TrueNAS UI

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