FreeNAS RAID-5, the Saga Continues…

What a nightmare at this point.  I am having a real hard time getting access back to my RAID-5.  I’ve rebuilt this RAID-5 a half dozen times now.  The issue is when I try to set a mount point back to the rebuilt RAID, I get a message about the “/mnt/bigdisk” (the original mount point of my RAID-5) not being properly dismounted and then FreeNAS panics and we go into a continuous reboot.

So, at this point I’m confident that the data is still intact, but I can’t figure out the process to get back to it.  I’ve moved the 3 RAIDed drives to another system, installed the most recent version of FreeNAS and have tried to access it and I can’t get to it.

So, I’ve downgraded back to an older version of FreeNAS trying to see if that will help, but now there are complaints of wrong disk size: expected vs. real.

Finding the time to deal with it is the hardest part at this point.

I’d certainly appreciate any comments in this area that may be helpful to me and the RAID-5 situation.