Free NAS annoyance, again…

Last night there was a general power outage to about 1,000 residents and thankfully all my APC UPSes were acting in good manor and kept my private office NOC running long enough for me to gracefully bring down all the servers. Well, the recently recovered NAS box (powered by Free NAS) was powered off correctly, but upon start up I encountered the NOW annoying “WARNING: device name truncated c9c9c9c9c9c9c9c….” and then we get caught in a reboot loop.

Remember in a previous post of mine I had to basically determine which drive was causing the issue at start-up. I’m now wondering if this is a bug in the Free NAS version I have. I’ll get to the recovery procedures later and report back. I guess I’ll upgrade to a more recent version to see if this has been fixed.

In the meantime I’ve powered off the NAS box (RAID-5) and it awaits intervention.