Another Netgate with storage failure, 6 in total so far
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@SteveITS FWIW #2 should be fixed with the version in the 2.8.0/25.03 branch. As for #3 that may be fixed with https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16231 though the change may only take effect once the cron job runs on the secondary.
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Wow, I stop checking the forum for a bit and come back to find that the ZFS patch has been released!
Thank you to @marcosm @stephenw10 @cmcdonald @dennypage @arri @w0w @SteveITS @Gertjan @fireodo @chrcoluk and everyone else that has contributed to this discussion and process.
Hopefully, this change will help reduce the change of storage failure for all devices running pfSense, especially those using small-sized and/or eMMC storage.
It is encouraging to see that additional areas have been identified for further improvements to storage wear and space usage.
We have progressed a long way from "you're holding it wrong."
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I'll add another disk write case, though it's in ISC DHCP which is deprecated. I find "Ignore denied clients rather than reject" sometimes will log the rejection even if the option is checked, which usually results in a log entry every few seconds. Restarting DHCP Server seems to fix it (no log), and at some point later (update? restart? random?) I will find it is logging again.
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"Thinking out loud here" :
If a (DHCP) client was set to be rejected, it will do the reject (it will answer "no") and normally, the client should take "no" for an answer - the the sofware is RFC compliant (I guess).
Let's consider 'ISC DHCP' as the old generation.
But its 2025, the client is probably a new generation DHCP client and won't take no for an answer, do'nt bother with RFC, so it keeps on insisting.
Now, ISC DHCP start to log.It's in the admin's authority to take things one level up. It was the admin after all who decided who to serve, and who to reject.
Go visit the client, and tell him who is boss in the town.
Next step : MAC black list the guy and call it a day. -
fwiw, It appears that Netgate only offers the 4200 with the 128Gb SSD, probably due to the eMMC issues.
