Good morning everyone. When I try to remove a drive, the program seems to work as it shows a burst of I/O up until it hits 0.2%. At that point, it sticks and there's no read/writes being done. I let it stay in this state for at least 30 minutes before rebooting, upon which the drive is still reflected in the pool with no apparent complaints
Earlier this weekend, I attempted to remove this same drive and cancelled it at about 0.7% (yes, it seemed to be progressing normally) because of time constraints. The abort didn't resolve after about an hour so I rebooted, started DrivePool back up, and let it resolve some (duplication?) errors. It seemed to carry on just fine, with the drive still reflected as part of the pool.
I'm new to pooling drives and I'm concerned that my impatience on the first removal attempt corrupted the pool somehow. There are a couple other issues that have arisen since my aborted removal:
Accessing SPECIFIC files from the pool via a networked computer will cause the accessing program, then Explorer on that computer, to crash.
Constant writes from uTorrent (maybe 5+ simultaneous torrents both reading and writing on each) after a few minutes causes the pool to become non-responsive.
When the pool becomes non-responsive, both networked computers that have the drive mapped (my box and my HTPC) will crash (i.e. if I "induce" a crash via uTorrent from my computer, my HTPC which was streaming from my server that runs DrivePool will follow suit).
Any ideas? I'm thinking about pulling the pooled files from the drive's hidden PoolPart directory, then forcing a drive removal, then re-adding them to the remaining pool, and finally re-adding the drive (EDIT: after a format, of course).
EDIT: I concurrently run StableBit Scanner, which doesn't indicate any issues. Then again, I'm not sure if it monitors pool health as much as it does SMART metrics.
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UPDATE:
I attempted to move the files from the drive's PoolPart and it just fell flat. Canceling the stuck move crashes Explorer, so this pretty much implicates the drive and not DrivePool. It's beyond of the scope of this forum, but if anyone has any suggestions for recovering the files on this drive, I'm game. My important files are already duplicated by the pool and are backed up off-site via CrashPlan. Thanks!
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Good morning everyone. When I try to remove a drive, the program seems to work as it shows a burst of I/O up until it hits 0.2%. At that point, it sticks and there's no read/writes being done. I let it stay in this state for at least 30 minutes before rebooting, upon which the drive is still reflected in the pool with no apparent complaints
Earlier this weekend, I attempted to remove this same drive and cancelled it at about 0.7% (yes, it seemed to be progressing normally) because of time constraints. The abort didn't resolve after about an hour so I rebooted, started DrivePool back up, and let it resolve some (duplication?) errors. It seemed to carry on just fine, with the drive still reflected as part of the pool.
I'm new to pooling drives and I'm concerned that my impatience on the first removal attempt corrupted the pool somehow. There are a couple other issues that have arisen since my aborted removal:
Any ideas? I'm thinking about pulling the pooled files from the drive's hidden PoolPart directory, then forcing a drive removal, then re-adding them to the remaining pool, and finally re-adding the drive (EDIT: after a format, of course).
EDIT: I concurrently run StableBit Scanner, which doesn't indicate any issues. Then again, I'm not sure if it monitors pool health as much as it does SMART metrics.
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UPDATE:
I attempted to move the files from the drive's PoolPart and it just fell flat. Canceling the stuck move crashes Explorer, so this pretty much implicates the drive and not DrivePool. It's beyond of the scope of this forum, but if anyone has any suggestions for recovering the files on this drive, I'm game. My important files are already duplicated by the pool and are backed up off-site via CrashPlan. Thanks!
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