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On a busy NFS server I've started receiving the following error messages and the system hangs with high load but no work being done. The system is a Dell R510 with 12 x 3TB drives in a RAID-50 configuration. The RAID-50 device is a full disk LVM (no partitions) and one large (36TB) data volume and the system is running CentOS 6.4 fully patched for OS and firmware. Anyone have any hints as to what might be causing this. It looks to me like the system is starting to swap and then failing and then XFS starts to throw a hissy fit because it can't start allocating pages for...

...is on an internal memory stick, the spinning drives are all data drives. It's a nice solid piece of hardware and suitable for home & small office. I also have FreeNAS running in a larger system which is based on an Intel DBS1200V3RPS motherboard, a Xeon processor, lots of ECC memory, and 36TB of disk. (6 SATA connectors on board, and 6TB drives were the largest available at the time; it will get expanded soon via an add-on RAID card running in JBOD mode.) It's a solid system. FreeNAS will do almost anything you'd expect of a storage device. I'd suggest downloading it and...

I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its power supply, it has not skipped a beat in all this time. I use it primarily as a backup device (via NFS) for a couple of Linux machines, (via SMB) for a couple of Windows PC's, and (via ftp) for web sites at my hosting provider. SMART+ reporting shows

Hi, over time the requirements and possibilities regarding filesystems changed for our users. currently I'm faced with the question: What might be a good way to provide one big filesystem for a few users which could also be enlarged; backuping the data is not the question. Big in that context is up to couple of 100 TB may be. O.K. I could install one hardware raid with e.g. N big drives

After a lot of tests and unsuccessful searching, I decided to start from scratch: I'm going to ditch the old volume and create a new one. I have 3 servers with 30 12TB disks each. Since I'm going to start a new volume, could it be better to group disks in 10 3-disk (or 6 5-disk) RAID-0 volumes to reduce the number of bricks? Redundancy would be given by replica 2 (still undecided